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".
The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.
| Version |
Location |
Description |
Submitted By |
Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
| Printed |
Page xxii
The following text was added to the Preface |
"We have a web site for the book, where we'll list examples,
errata, and any plans for future editions. You can access
this page at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781565920545/
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Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 25
para. 5, line 2 |
"For example, print 'Bob\'s hair is brown' will not give you": changed font of the second
apostrophe to match the font of the first and last apostrophe
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Anonymous |
|
Aug 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 74
Beginning of third paragraph. |
Sometimes your UNIX software will set up TERM correctly;
Now reads:
Sometimes your UNIX Software will not set up TERM correctly;
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Anonymous |
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Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 80
In the third paragraph, the following text was deleted |
"Any variable can become an environment variable. First it
must be defined as usual; then it must be exported
with the command:
export varnames"
This text was was replaced with:
"Any variable can become an environment variable, and new
variables can be created that are environment variables.
Environment variables are created with the command:
export varnames
If the names in varnames already exist, then those variables
become environment variables. If they don't, then the shell
creates new variables that are environment variables.
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 87
In Figure 4-1, the string ".fred" in part (a) should be ". fred". |
|
Anonymous |
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| Printed |
Page 94
the code lines |
IFS=,
print $*
now reads:
IFS=,
print "$*"
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 97
1st entry in table: in "-word": made the hyphen an en-dash |
|
Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 98
same fix as on p. 97 to para. 5 line 3 and to the next-to-last |
|
Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 105
In the the last item of the second bulleted list, an additional |
thin space was placed between "N" and "" in the string "N".
|
Anonymous |
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Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 113
ninth line from the top of the page: changed |
ls -l | grep -i '^.{41}$date' | cut -c55-
to
ls -l | grep -i "^.{41}$date" |cut -c55-
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Anonymous |
|
May 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 116
code lines 1-6, replaced |
function pushd {
dirname=$1
cd ${dirname:?"missing directory name."}
DIRSTACK="$dirname ${DIRSTACK:-$PWD}"
print "$DIRSTACK"
}
with
function pushd
{
dirname=$1
cd ${dirname:?"missing directory name."}
DIRSTACK="$PWD ${DIRSTACK:-$OLDPWD}"
print "$DIRSTACK"
}
|
Anonymous |
|
Aug 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 116
para. 4, lines 1-3: changed |
"The third line of the function pushes the new directory onto
the stack. The expression ${DIRSTACK:-$PWD} evaluates to
$DIRSTACK if it is non-null or $PWD (the current directory)
if it is null."
to
"The third line of the function pushes the directory that
was current before the change onto the stack. The expression
${DIRSTACK:-$OLDPWD} evaluates to $DIRSTACK if it is non-null
or $OLDPWD (the current directory before cd) if it is null."
("S{DIRSTACK:-$OLDPWD}", "$DIRSTACK", "$OLDPWD" and "cd" are
bold.)
|
Anonymous |
|
Aug 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 126
The following text was added before Table 5-1 |
"Note that these operators compare the lexicographic values
of strings, so that "10" < "2".
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 157
|
The code in the middle of the page used to read:
sort -nr $filename ¦ head -$howmany
It now reads:
sort -nr $filename ¦ head $howmany
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 166
The following text was appended to the footnote |
"However, other C operations, like the increment and decrement
operators ++ and --, do not have Korn shell equivalents."
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 172
|
The top of the page currently reads:
else
cd $dirname
dirname=$1
It should read:
else
# normal case of pushd dirname
dirname=$1
cd $dirname
|
Anonymous |
|
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| Printed |
Page 179
|
The "typeset -uR5" example in Table 6-6 used to read:
"VWXYZ"
It now reads:
"WXYZ"
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 185
The underlying operating system supports up to 16 open files |
(or more, depending on the version of Unix), but the shell will only parse
0-9. So this page needs to be corrected to say 10 instead of 16.
|
Anonymous |
|
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| Printed |
Page 188
In the code example, |
1,/^[]*$/d
now reads:
1,/^[ ]*$/d
|
Anonymous |
|
Jun 01, 1999 |
| Printed |
Page 203
|
The second paragraph used to read:
"...all whitespace in the lines from the fill is preserved..."
It now reads:
"...trailing whitespace in the lines from the fill is preserved..."
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 208
|
Table 7-5 used to read:
row #5: '$dave' | $dave
row #6: '$dave' | 'bob'
It now reads:
row #5: '$dave' | $dave
row #6: \'$dave\' | 'bob'
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 209
code line 5, replaced |
awk '{FS=":"; print $1, $6}' /etc/passwd |
with
awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} {print $1, $6}' /etc/passwd
|
Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 209
para. 9, line 3: changed "The FS=":" is analogous" |
to "The BEGIN{FS=":"} is analogous"
|
Anonymous |
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Aug 01, 1998 |
| Printed |
Page 214
In the function makecmd, should be replaced with \t |
|
Anonymous |
|
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| Printed |
Page 272
The following text was added to the list of limitations |
"9. Because the lines of a script being debugged are read
into an array, and arrays can only hold up to 1024 elements,
kshdb will not work on scripts of more than 1024 lines. One
workaround to this might be to remove lines from the script
that contain only comments or whitespace.
|
Anonymous |
|
Mar 01, 2000 |
| Printed |
Page 283
in the footnote, changed NAND to XOR |
|
Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 1998 |
