Errata
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.
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 |
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Printed | Page xxxviii The sentence before the list changed to |
Here's a list of authors, their initials, and the articles they wrote |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page xxxix The following names were added to the page |
CY Chuck Yerkes 13.15 |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 83 |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 95 last sentence |
"A lot of 'oddball' time zones are included: for example, the state |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 109 in footnote, changed "$tcsh" to "$?tcsh" |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 142-144 table 8-3 revised |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 142 middle of the right column of the table |
"See " has been deleted |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 206 Korn shell emacs mode line editing commands |
CTRL-z is now CTRL-a |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 209 article 11.15: in the .Ps/.Pe section, changed |
% #file#data |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 214 |
The first paragraph has been changed to now read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 216 |
The last line of code, on the right hand side read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 223 |
The next-to-last paragraph, from the second line on read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 226 in the last block of code, made the code after the prompts bold |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 226 All lines in the second column in the middle of the page now line |
up underneath each other. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 228-229 re-broke the page so that the blank line in the code is not |
at the end of p. 228 |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 243 |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 255 sixth paragraph, the one labeled !(abc) |
changed: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 261 |
A little more than half way down the page, a line read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 264 |
The last paragraph now reads: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 265 changed the second sentence |
"when the file was created" to "when a link was added" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 267 changed the sentence in the third paragraph |
The access time is the last time the file was read or written. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 269 |
The part of the code that used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 270 The following text was added to the top of the page |
"The ${1+"$@"} passes in quoted filenames from the command line |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 276 line 3: changed "give" to "gives" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 287 changed this troff source |
Let's start with the normal Berkeley fIls -lfP output. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 296 The second paragraph in article 17.08 now begins |
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Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 297 At the top of the page, the first two code lines now have a |
-t before the number in each: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 297 The following line of code was changed from roman to bold |
% rm /tmp/file[12] |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 325 In the first paragraph |
"Here's how to do it" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 325 |
"and pipes them to a shell" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 325 After "...if you aren't sure what files you'll be renaming" the |
following text has been added: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 339-340 articles 19.06 and 19.07 revised |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 341 |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 355 section 20.09, para. 2, line 1, |
"However, some versions of tar don't understand wildcards" |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 366 |
The last sentence read: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 367 Second line, the "yy" at the end of "modyhrmiyy" has been deleted |
so it now reads: |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 376 footnote: changed "Note that on a Berkeley UNIX system" to "On |
some UNIX systems" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 376 last paragraph: deleted footnote, added "(your ls -l may look a bit |
different)" before colon. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 377 |
Section 22.02, paragraph 2, line 5 read: |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 388 |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 388 |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 388 |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 388 |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 388 The following text replaced the paragraph starting with |
"(System V even lets you change...": |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 392 |
The text currently reads: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 424 |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 425 |
The text used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 425 The paragraph beginning with "This command shows..." was replaced by |
the following text: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 466 |
changed code line 9 to read: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 481 item 2 in numbered list: removed formatting errors (item |
now starts with "agrep") |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 521 line 3: changed "inle" to "inTable" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 602 changed last sentence to end |
missing, the matched record is written to the standard output. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 609 in "print", next-to-last line: put "file" in quotes |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 636 revised the first para. as follows |
.Pe 0.5 |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 662 article 35.15, fourth paragraph: Changed from this |
The following command will print just the permissions |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 738 last code, line 2: changed "Mail" and "People" to "mail" and |
"people" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 740 changed "An entry in any of these fields can be a single |
number" to "These fields can contain a single number" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 787 line 9: "-2390" should be "-ML" to attribute the section to |
Mike Loukides |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 795-796 item #2 is new |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 829 changed |
shell. For example, if fImsgsfP contains f(CWfirst next fP, then |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 840 removed the lone "s" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 843 The following paragraph was added before the paragraph beginning with |
"The advantages of getopt...": |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 862 removed "RCSlog header" line so that the page ends with "-LM" |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 884 section 45.30, para. 1, line 3: "slots" now reads "lots" |
Anonymous | Aug 01, 1999 | ||
Printed | Page 891 In section 45.36, second paragraph, the following text has been |
added after "(like modify some file, access a printer, etc.)": |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 892 After the line "Once the first edmaster removes the lockfile, |
the second edmaster can create the lockfile and do its editing |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 892 After the line "The rest of the shell script keeps its normal |
mask" the following text has been added: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 901 The following sidenote was added above "2>&1 45.21" |
"$@" 44.15 |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 914 removed the line between "if (!d..." and "-DG" |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 926 cal_today script (code sample 2), line 6 |
sed -e 's/^/ /' -e "s/ $4$/>$4</" -e "s/ $4 />$4</" |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1998 | |
Printed | Page 932-933 moved the last line on p. 932 to the top of p. 933 |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 950 code line -2: changed fL to fI |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 959 |
(959) Next to "somecmd:" the phrase "command not found" is now in Courier font. |
Anonymous | Apr 01, 1999 | |
Printed | Page 964 line 1 of 51.04: removed "xs" |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 979 last two sentences of "expect": took everything but "Tcl/tk" |
out of itals |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 991 under "watchq": changed "script daemon" to "daemon script" |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 1998 | ||
Printed | Page 1005 and 1006 changed all the "ora.com"s to "oreilly.com" |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 1006 |
changed the last sentence to read: |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 1033 backslash, 1,2 entry: removed formatting errors so that it now |
reads |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 1034 |
The index entry under $ (dollar sign) used to read: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 1040 "command command" entry: removed fI and fP |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 1060 ps command: "-ef option" entry: made the "//" into "\" in the |
troff code, causing them not to appear in the text. The entry now |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 1063 same change for "-e option" under "sh (Bourne shell)" entry |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | ||
Printed | Page 1068 fixed "Time to go now" message entry to say: "Time to go now" message |
(and then the page number) |
Anonymous | Oct 01, 1997 | |
Printed | Page 1075 The paragraph beginning with "Whenever possible, our books..." |
was removed from the colophon. |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2000 |