Errata for Learning the bash Shell
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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 "Date Corrected".
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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
| Printed |
Page 2
3rd Point in the Section "What Is a Shell?" |
"(output to the file phonelist.sorted)" previously had a space between "phone" and "list.sorted".
It NOW READS "phonelist.sorted".
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2006 |
| Printed |
Page 27
last sentence of page |
"If you use neither vi or emacs":
Change 'or' to 'nor'
|
Anonymous |
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Nov 01, 2008 |
| Printed |
Page 47
first example |
$ fc -l cp > lastcommands$ vi lastcommands$ source lastcommands
NOW READS:
$ fc -l cp > lastcommands
$ vi lastcommands
$ source lastcommands
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2006 |
| Printed |
Page 63
2nd example line in the section "Variables and Quoting" |
$ fred='Four spaces between these words.'
previously had only a single space between "these" and "words". It NOW HAS four, as the
output of the
echo "$fred"
statement on the next page shows.
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2006 |
| Printed |
Page 83
Figure 4-1 |
Figure 4-1 should be changed to match that in the 2nd Edition.
Item b:
source alice
should read:
alice
Item c:
source alice &
should read:
alice &
|
Anonymous |
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Nov 01, 2008 |
| Printed |
Page 87
5th paragraph, 3rd line of code sample |
echo "alice: $*"
NOW READS:
echo "alice: $@"
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2006 |
| Printed |
Page 115
4th paragraph |
"Task 5-1" should be "Task 4-1"
|
Anonymous |
May 23, 2009 |
Sep 01, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 144
Middle of the page |
#Process the input files
for filename in "$*"; do
NOW READS:
#Process the input files
for filename in "$@"; do
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 2006 |
| Printed |
Page 160
source listing block |
for (( j=i; j < numvalues; j++ )); do
if [ ${values[j]} -le ${values[$lowest]}; then
lowest=$j
fi
done
->
for (( j=i; j < numvalues; j++ )); do
if [ ${values[j]} -le ${values[$lowest]} ]; then
lowest=$j
fi
done
|
Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 2007 |
| Printed |
Page 207
middle of 2nd line of 2nd paragraph |
where printed
it's a bit like concatening the the results of plain ps
must be
it's a bit like concatening the results of plain ps
|
Anonymous |
Sep 02, 2009 |
Sep 01, 2009 |
| Printed |
Page 223
second listing (right after "For example:") and third listing (right after |
"listings that look like this:");
Both examples previously had .ps8 that shouldn't be there and should have had newlines after the command (in bold). This HAS BEEN CORRECTED.
Also, there was previously an extra "x"; xxtrace NOW READS xtrace.
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2006 |
| Printed |
Page 260
second bullet point |
The script was missing some newlines. The commands starting with "chown", "chmod" and
"/bin/grep" NOW APPEAR on their own lines.
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2006 |
