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 xvi The following information was added to the preface after the |
"How to Contact Us" heading: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 11 Before the paragraph beginning, "Some options can be invoked |
only ...", the following paragraph was added: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 21 In the twelfth line from the bottom, "Value returned" was aligned |
to the left. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 38 Under the entry for the cscope -f option, the first "out" |
was changed to italics and the second to Constant Width. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 56 In lines 11 and 12, the example pipeline was merged onto one line. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 71 The last word of line 12, under the -fstype option, was changed |
from courier to italic. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 72 The following sentence was added onto the end of the description |
for -size: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 78 "$TEXTDOMAINDR" was changed to "$TEXTDOMAINDIR." |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 80 |
the section on grep is missing the -f option |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 117 |
The "-H" option used to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 118 |
In line 2, the "-N" option used to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 119 In line 10, "manuals" was changed to "manual." |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 129 |
Line 6 used to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 138 In the -s option text, "sets" was changed to "set". |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 140 On line 16, a space was added between "-h" and "str". |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 150 In lines 5 and 7, "outfile" was changed to italics. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 151 |
The line at the end of the first full paragraph used to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 160 "^char" was changed from courier italics to italics. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 166 There was a stray piece of sgml tag in the first line of text |
under the "tar" entry." This tag has been removed. |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 166 |
Line 8 used to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 191 In line 3 the "-1" (minus and digit one) was changed to to "-l" |
(minus and letter ell). |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 196 In line 8, the lex entry was changed from courier to bold. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 205 |
The line that reads: |
Anonymous | Jun 01, 2001 | |
Printed | Page 206 |
Under the ksh column, the text used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 214 |
The wording in lines 15 and 16 were changed to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 223 |
The example at the top of the page used to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 227 1st paragraph, all the way to the right near the margin |
In describing the . shell builtin command (i.e, the "source" period), there is a typo |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 243 In the seventh line from the bottom, a space was added after the period |
for "ksh93 only." |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 245 On line 12, the courier "l" (ell) was changed to roman "1" (digit one). |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 344 On line 13, the formatting of the third word, nooption, was changed. |
The "no" was changed from courier italics to regular courier. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 355 In the 17th line, "the the" was changed to "the". |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 366 In the twelfth line from the bottom, "index()s" was changed to |
"index()". |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 375 In the third line from the bottom, the "{N}" at the end of the line |
was removed. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 378 Between the entries for 's' and 'x', an entry for 'u' format letter |
was added: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 385 At the top of the first table, a centimer was described as |
equivalent to 2.54 inches. The entry for column 3 was changed to read: |
Anonymous | May 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 394 The line annotation comment was capitalized. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 402 |
The listing for ".rm." used to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 402 |
The listing for ".rn" used to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 407 On line 19, "oroff" was changed to "otroff". |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 431 The tagging for the entry for item "Li" was changed from <literal> |
to <command>. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 467 |
The listing under "Options" used to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 522 |
The line annotation at the bottom of the page used to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 570 |
The entry for "Programming Pearls" was revised to read: |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 577-593 The index was updated to reflect these changes. |
Anonymous | Jul 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 599 The following text was added as the last sentence to the second |
to last paragraph of the colophon: |
Anonymous | Jan 01, 2000 |