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.
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Date Submitted |
Date Corrected |
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Page xvi
The following information was added to the preface after the |
"How to Contact Us" 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/9781565924277/"
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 2000 |
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Page 11
Before the paragraph beginning, "Some options can be invoked |
only ...", the following paragraph was added:
<para>
Note: comments such as “SVR4 only,” or
“Solaris only,” compare only those two systems.
Many “Solaris only” commands and/or options are
commonly available on other Unix systems as well.
</para>
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Anonymous |
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May 01, 2000 |
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Page 21
In the twelfth line from the bottom, "Value returned" was aligned |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 38
Under the entry for the cscope -f option, the first "out" |
was changed to italics and the second to Constant Width.
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 56
In lines 11 and 12, the example pipeline was merged onto one line. |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 71
The last word of line 12, under the -fstype option, was changed |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 72
The following sentence was added onto the end of the description |
for -size:
Some systems allow <emphasis>n</emphasis><literal>k</literal>
to specify the size in kilobytes.
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Anonymous |
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May 01, 2000 |
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Page 78
"$TEXTDOMAINDR" was changed to "$TEXTDOMAINDIR." |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 80
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the section on grep is missing the -f option
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Anonymous |
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Page 117
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The "-H" option used to read:
"Print mail headers only."
It now reads:
"Print mail header summary only."
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 118
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In line 2, the "-N" option used to read:
"Don't print mail headers."
It now reads:
"Don't print mail header summary."
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 119
In line 10, "manuals" was changed to "manual." |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 129
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Line 6 used to read:
"Verbose; show all data. Duplicate lines print as *."
It now reads:
"Verbose; show all data. With this, duplicate lines print as *."
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 138
In the -s option text, "sets" was changed to "set". |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 140
On line 16, a space was added between "-h" and "str". |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 150
In lines 5 and 7, "outfile" was changed to italics. |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 151
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The line at the end of the first full paragraph used to read:
"If objfile is not specified, a.out is used."
It now reads:
"On many systems, if objfile is not specified, a.out is used.
Solaris requires the objfile name."
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 160
"^char" was changed from courier italics to italics. |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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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.
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 2000 |
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Page 166
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Line 8 used to read:
"(tape archive)" (with "tape archive" in bold)
Now the "t," "a," and "r" are in bold.
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 191
In line 3 the "-1" (minus and digit one) was changed to to "-l" |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 196
In line 8, the lex entry was changed from courier to bold. |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 205
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The line that reads:
$! $! Background exit status.
should read:
$! $! Last background Process ID.
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Anonymous |
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Jun 01, 2001 |
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Page 206
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Under the ksh column, the text used to read:
r x=cmd
It now reads:
r x=y [cmd]
The x and y and cmd was printed in courier italic.
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Anonymous |
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May 01, 2000 |
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Page 214
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The wording in lines 15 and 16 were changed to read:
"exec n<&p Move input from coprocess ...
exec n>&p Move output for coprocess ..."
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 223
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The example at the top of the page used to read:
$ fc -l cat List the last command beginning with cat
It now reads:
$ fc -l cat List all commands since the last command
beginning with cat
Another example was added immediately after the previous one:
$ fc -l 50 List all commands since command 50
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Anonymous |
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May 01, 2000 |
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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
in how this command is presented in the right margin. It looks like a colon (with two
vertical dots) rather than a single period.
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Anonymous |
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Page 243
In the seventh line from the bottom, a space was added after the period |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 245
On line 12, the courier "l" (ell) was changed to roman "1" (digit one). |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 344
On line 13, the formatting of the third word, nooption, was changed. |
The "no" was changed from courier italics to regular courier.
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 355
In the 17th line, "the the" was changed to "the". |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 366
In the twelfth line from the bottom, "index()s" was changed to |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 375
In the third line from the bottom, the "{N}" at the end of the line |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 378
Between the entries for 's' and 'x', an entry for 'u' format letter |
was added:
"u Unsigned decimal value"
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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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:
0.394 inches
(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification
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Anonymous |
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May 01, 2000 |
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Page 394
The line annotation comment was capitalized. |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 402
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The listing for ".rm." used to read:
"Remove request macro or string xx."
It now reads:
"Remove request, macro or string xx."
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 402
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The listing for ".rn" used to read:
"Rename request, macro, or string xx to yy."
It now reads:
"Rename request, macro or string xx to yy."
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 407
On line 19, "oroff" was changed to "otroff". |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 431
The tagging for the entry for item "Li" was changed from <literal> |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 467
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The listing under "Options" used to read:
"(leave blank)"
It now reads:
"blank"
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 522
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The line annotation at the bottom of the page used to read:
"...latest revision byadding updates..."
It now reads:
"...latest revision by adding updates..."
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 570
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The entry for "Programming Pearls" was revised to read:
"...USA, 2000."
instead of :
"...USA, 1886."
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 577-593
The index was updated to reflect these changes. |
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Anonymous |
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Jul 01, 2000 |
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Page 599
The following text was added as the last sentence to the second |
to last paragraph of the colophon:
"Whenever possible, our books use RepKover?, a durable and
flexible lay-flat binding. If the page count exceeds RepKover's
limit, perfect binding is used."
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Anonymous |
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Jan 01, 2000 |
