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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 7
horizontal line 1/3 of the way down the page

The double horizonal line just above "Standard Symbols" HAS BEEN DELETED.

 Anonymous  Jun 2004
Printed Page 24
second row of table at top of page

"MAIL Path your incoming mailbox"

NOW READS:
"MAIL Path to your incoming mailbox".

 Anonymous  Aug 2005
Printed Page 27
last paragraph

"...precede the character with the forward slash '\' character."

NOW READS:
"...precede the character with the backward slash '\' character."

 Anonymous  Aug 2005
Printed Page 37
Item 2, the third and fourth commands

tar xvzf package.tar.gz
tar xvjf package.tar.bz2

NOW READS:
tar xvzf <path>/package.tar.gz
tar xvjf <path>/package.tar.bz2
(where <path> is typeset in Replaceable style)

 Anonymous  Aug 2005
Printed Page 37
Item 4, the third command

$ su -l

NOW READS:
$ su

 Anonymous  Aug 2005
Printed Page 55
First paragraph

The three occurrences of "XOR" NOW READ "NOT AND".

 Anonymous  Apr 2006
Printed Page 59
"Useful Options" table

In the description of the -L option of the du command,the first word

NOW READS:
"Follow".

 Anonymous  Apr 2004
Printed Page 62
last paragraph

An octal number, up to four digits long, that specifies the file's
absolute permissions in bits. The rightmost digit is special
(described later) and the second, third, and fourth represent the
file's owner, the file's group, and all users. See Figure 3 for an
example, displaying the meaning of mode 0640.

"the rightmost digit" NOW READS "the leftmost digit"

 Anonymous  Apr 2004
Printed Page 90
Second example (line 9 onwards)

$ md5sum myfile1 > sum1
$ md5sum myfile2 > sum2
$ diff -q sum1 sum2
Files sum1 and sum2 differ

NOW READS:
$ md5sum myfile1 | cut -c1-32 > sum1
$ md5sum myfile2 | cut -c1-32 > sum2
$ diff -q sum1 sum2
Files sum1 and sum2 differ

 Anonymous  Apr 2006
Printed Page 163
2nd paragraph under "Audio and Video"

Mpg123 was previously referred to as a "popular" video player.
This reference HAS BEEN REMOVED.

 Anonymous  Apr 2006
Printed Page 169
Final two lines of the page

The word your_test NOW APPEARS in CodeReplaceable character style, on both lines.

 Anonymous  Apr 2004
Printed Page 173
first and second examples (two places)

echo "again"

NOW READS:
echo "$i"

 Anonymous  Aug 2005
Printed Page 173
second example

until [ $i -gt 3 ]

NOW READS:
until [ $i -ge 3 ]

 Anonymous  Aug 2005
Printed Page 181
Index entry

(forward slash)

NOW READS:
(backslash)

 Anonymous  Aug 2005
Printed Page 187
Index entry

patch command, 87

NOW READS:
patch command, context diff, 87

 Anonymous  Aug 2005