Errata
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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 xxii changed both instances of "ora.com" to "oreilly.com" |
Anonymous | Sep 1997 | |
| Printed | Page xii and xxii in the last printing, the printer inserted the page we |
had sent to replace xxii as xii instead. So I sent them new ones to |
Anonymous | Oct 1997 |
| Printed | Page xvii and xviii changed all the instances of "ora.com" to "oreilly.com" |
Anonymous | Oct 1997 | |
| Printed | Page xxii The following information was added to the "Comments and Questions" |
section of the preface: |
Anonymous | Jan 2000 |
| Printed | Page 7 added the following footnote, anchored at "the exclamation point |
alone.": |
Anonymous | May 1998 |
| Printed | Page 21 para. -3: changed "and the city" to "or the city" |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 24 1st code example: removed 5th line from the bottom ("print " " $2") |
Anonymous | Sep 1997 | |
| Printed | Page 24 1st code changed: |
}' $* | |
Anonymous | May 1998 |
| Printed | Page 24 code sample 1, replaced last four lines |
$1 != LastState { |
Anonymous | Aug 1998 |
| Printed | Page 25 2nd code example changed to |
$1 == LastState { |
Anonymous | May 1998 |
| Printed | Page 29 Figure 3-1, section 3: the two letter a's in "jar" and "abe" |
are now in bold, as they are in section 6. |
Anonymous | Aug 1998 |
| Printed | Page 38 1st bullet item: fixed broken cross-reference; it now says "see |
Table 3-3" |
Anonymous | Apr 1998 |
| Printed | Page 39 in table, changed "Alphanumeric characters" to "Printable |
characters (includes whitespace)" |
Anonymous | May 1998 |
| Printed | Page 39 Table 3-3, row 8, column 2: changed "Alphanumeric characters" |
to "Printable characters (includes whitespace)" |
Anonymous | Aug 1998 |
| Printed | Page 39 table |
In the table for character classes, |
Anonymous | Aug 2008 |
| Printed | Page 47 para. 2: added "for grep" after "a regular expression" |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 48 Last paragraph first line |
Should read: |
Anonymous | Aug 2008 |
| Printed | Page 51 In the script code for the gres command, the following has been |
inserted as the first line: |
Anonymous | Jan 2001 |
| Printed | Page 53 |
The gres command in the middle of the page used to read: |
Anonymous | Apr 2000 |
| Printed | Page 54 table: Month, Day, Year entry: added "" before the "}" after "2" |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 57 The two instances of sample script have been updated to use |
global subsitution. The first one, for example, now reads: |
Anonymous | May 1999 |
| Printed | Page 58 Figure 4-1 shows a script. The first line of the script |
now ends with a slash "/" |
Anonymous | Apr 2000 |
| Printed | Page 73 last code example, line 2: put "Chapter" in all caps |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 74 next-to-last code, line 3: put "Chapter" in all caps |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 74 para. -3: changed "TeX" to "LaTeX" |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 81 line 2: deleted "a blank or" |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 83 para. 3: changed "a blank line" to "blank lines" |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 83 3rd code changed to |
/^.Ah/{ |
Anonymous | May 1998 |
| Printed | Page 85 code example -3 changed to |
/^.XX /s/sed, substitution command/sed, substitute command/ |
Anonymous | May 1998 |
| Printed | Page 88 |
changed footnote to read: |
Anonymous | May 1998 |
| Printed | Page 101 2nd code example changed |
.Rh 0 "DBclose" "closes a database" |
Anonymous | May 1998 |
| Printed | Page 105 code examples 1 and 2 changed to (respectively) |
sed -n " |
Anonymous | May 1998 |
| Printed | Page 105 para. 1, line 3: changed "Writing sed Scripts," to "Writing |
sed Scripts)" (changed comma to close parenthesis.) |
Anonymous | Aug 1998 |
| Printed | Page 115 In line 3 of the script in Figure 6-1 |
The "s" command is now lower case. |
Anonymous | Sep 2000 |
| Printed | Page 133 IN PRINT: Code sample at bottom of page, lines 10 and 15 |
SHOULD BE: |
Anonymous | Aug 2008 |
| Printed | Page 153 code sample 5: added a blank line between 2 and 3 lines so |
that the sample now reads as follows: |
Anonymous | Aug 1998 |
| Printed | Page 155 The check book balancer has been fixed to now allow deposits. |
The last two lines on the page now read: |
Anonymous | May 1999 |
| Printed | Page 156 The same changes as page 155 with putting a negative sign before |
the amount spent on each item. Also, in the middle of the page, the |
Anonymous | May 1999 |
| Printed | Page 157 The following text was added to the top of the page |
you'd want to make to this program to improve it, and |
Anonymous | Apr 2000 |
| Printed | Page 163 In the last line |
for a directories |
Anonymous | Jan 2001 |
| Printed | Page 165 In the table, in between the entries for 's' and 'x', |
the following entry has been added: |
Anonymous | Jun 2001 |
| Printed | Page 171 para. 2: added a footnote to the end of the line |
"Here's the info script using awk:". The footnote text is |
Anonymous | Aug 1998 |
| Printed | Page 191 2nd code block, line 5: changed "numberals" to "numerals" |
Anonymous | Apr 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 195 code sample 1: changed lines 5 through 7 from |
if ( $i in acro ) { |
Anonymous | Aug 1998 |
| Printed | Page 212 para. 6, line -2: changed "Use "&"" to "Use "&"" |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 221 |
The second code block, fourth line read: |
Anonymous | Jan 1999 |
| Printed | Page 221 The fourth paragraph, third line ending with |
"elements are swapped." A footnote was added: |
Anonymous | Jan 1999 |
| Printed | Page 236 code sample 4, added dash at the end of the line. The line |
now reads |
Anonymous | Aug 1998 |
| Printed | Page 246 last code on page: changed "orders.today" to "orders" |
Anonymous | May 1998 | |
| Printed | Page 248 Last paragraph first first sentence |
If a program has a number of branching constructs, you might find that an input line falls through |
Anonymous | Aug 2008 |
| Printed | Page 256 code sample 3, line 2: "#! /bin/sh" should be "#!/bin/sh" |
(closed-up the space) |
Anonymous | Dec 1998 |
| Printed | Page 263 |
The ftp location for GNU awk has been updated. It now reads: |
Anonymous | May 1999 |
| Printed | Page 263 |
Under "GNU awk (gawk)," second paragraph, line 2 read: |
Anonymous | Sep 1999 |
| Printed | Page 272 Code in 1st and 3rd paragrah |
the contents should show: |
Anonymous | Aug 2008 |
| Printed | Page 274 |
code sample, changed alignment so that it now reads: |
Anonymous | Aug 1998 |
| Printed | Page 409 added the following to the end of the next-to-last para. |
Whenever possible, our books use RepKover (tm), a durable and flexible |
Anonymous | Sep 1997 |
