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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 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  Mar 2006
Printed Page 27
last sentence of page

"If you use neither vi or emacs":
Change 'or' to 'nor'

 Anonymous  Nov 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  Mar 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  Mar 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  Nov 2008
Printed Page 87
5th paragraph, 3rd line of code sample

echo "alice: $*"

NOW READS:
echo "alice: $@"

 Anonymous  Mar 2006
Printed Page 115
4th paragraph

"Task 5-1" should be "Task 4-1"

 Anonymous  Sep 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 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  Apr 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 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  Mar 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  Mar 2006