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Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page xv-xvi
The following text was added to the preface under the

"We'd Like to Hear from You" heading:

"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/9781565923478/

For more information about this book and others, see the
O'Reilly web site:

http://www.oreilly.com"

The addition of this text threw off the page break for page xvi.

 Anonymous  Jan 2000
Printed Page 50
In the last paragraph, 1st sentence:

"ceratin" was changed to "certain"

 Anonymous  May 1999
Printed Page 70
Replaced the '(single quotes) with "(double quotes), as follows

MAILPATH="
/path?Message:
/path?Message:
/path?Message"

 Anonymous  Jun 1999
Printed Page 100

The text used to read:

"if name had the value"

It now reads:

"if filename had the value"

 Anonymous  Jun 2000
Printed Page 102

The text used to read:


"less efficient than ${variable##/*}"

It now reads:

"less efficient than ${variable##*/}"

 Anonymous  Jun 2000
Printed Page 114

The code used to read:

Echo $DIR_STACK

It now reads:

echo $DIR_STACK

 Anonymous  Jun 2000
Printed Page 144

The code used to read:

* ) exit 'usage: alice [-a] [-b barg] [-c] args...'

It now reads:

* ) echo 'usage: alice [-a] [-b barg] [-c] args...'

 Anonymous  Jun 2000
Printed Page 157

The text used to read:

"count from 0 to N+1"

It now reads:

"count from 0 to N"

 Anonymous  Jun 2000
Printed Page 164

In Table 7-1, the 12th line used to read:

>> file Direct file descriptor "n" to "file"; append to "file" if
it already exists.

The redirector was changed to read:

n>>file

 Anonymous  May 1999
Printed Page 165
In the code example,

1,/^[]*$/d

It now reads:

1,/^[ ]*$/d

 Anonymous  Jun 1999
Printed Page 174

Code sample 2 used to read:

< TERM=vt100; line=$(tty); while ...} < /etc/terms

It now reads:

< TERM=vt100; line=$(tty); while ...} < /etc/terms;

 Anonymous  May 1999
Printed Page 224
Table 9-2, row 1: "The shell exists from script" was changed

to read "The shell exits from script"

 Anonymous  May 1999
Printed Page 281
The section title was renamed "Environment Variables".

Anonymous  Jun 2000
Printed Page 305
Under "symbols" on page 305, the index does not show

anything for $? (which is discussed on page 115).

Add to "$(dollar sign)" section. The ? is actually on the next page
anyway; "? (question mark)".

Anonymous