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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 xiii
The following text was added to the page |
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examples, errata and any plans for future editions.
You can access this page at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781565925854/
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Anonymous |
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Feb 01, 2000 |
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Page xiii
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In the middle of the page, the email address read:
Ibookquestions@oreilly.com
It now reads:
bookquestions@oreilly.com
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Anonymous |
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Feb 01, 2000 |
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Page 25
In line 1 [comm -num], "Suppress printing of column num", |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 45
In line 4 [egrep -A num], changed "before" to "after" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 45
In line 6 [egrep -B num], changed "after" to "before" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 69
In the synopsis |
"grep [options] pat [files]"
Changed "pat" to "pattern"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 69
Also, in introductory description, changed "a regular |
expression regexp" to "a regular expression pattern"
--still in italic.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 70
In line 23 [grep -A num], changed "before" to "after" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 70
In line 25 [grep -B num], changed "after" to "before" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 85-86
After line 20 to 86 line 5, ([less :n] to [less !]) |
Descriptions are no longer printed in bold type.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 85
In the second item from bottom, changed "cmd" to "command" |
in both left column and text in right column.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 86
On line 3, changed the ! on the left to |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 125
On line 11 from the bottom of the page, changed |
"segements" to "segments"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 157
On lines 10 and 11 from the bottom[-H, --heading]: right |
aligned them with the options above.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 188
In first example |
for $file in *
Now reads:
for file in *
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Anonymous |
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Jun 01, 1999 |
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Page 206
In line 7 from the bottom, moved "The history character" |
to the right to align with other columns above and below.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 207
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Line 3 used to read:
% echo "Well, isn't that "special"?"
It now reads:
% echo "Well, isn't that """special?""
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 228
In line 9 [alias; last of the Examples] replaced the |
single quote after ".ol" with "d" so it reads .old
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 241
On line 13 from the bottom [set; first of Examples], |
changed "(yes no mabye)" to "(yes no maybe)"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 262
On line 20 [C-x 2], changed "split-window-horizontally" to |
"split-window-vertically" and changed "horizontally"
to "vertically"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 262
On line 25 [C-x 3], changed "split-window-vertically" to |
"split-window-horizontally", and changed "vertically"
to "horizontally"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 262
On line 25 [C-x 3], moved the item C-x 3 up so it's |
after C-x 2 and before C-x 4 b
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 267
[split-window-horizontally] Changed "C-x 2" to "C-x 3" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 267
[split-window-vertically] Changed "C-x 3" to "C-x 2" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 284
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In the last paragraph before heading, changed sentence to read:
Learning the vi Editor is by Linda Lamb and Arnold Robbins.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 342
On line 2 from the bottom, changed "Sofware" to "Software" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 350
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On line -11 [make -W file...], changed line to read:
-W file, --what-if file, --new-file file, --assume-new file
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 353
On the ${%D) on line 5 and the ${%F} on line 9, changed |
curly braces to parentheses, like the other macros.
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 408
Under the section "Regular Expressions," between $ and (||), |
the line read:
Denotes a class of characters to match. [^] negates the class
It now reads:
[] Denotes a class of characters to match. [^] negates the class
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Anonymous |
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Feb 01, 2000 |
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Page 466
In line 4 from the bottom, changed "dislays" to "displays" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 482
On lines 4 to 7 [host -H zone], moved down the -H option so |
it's in alphabetical order between "-G" and "-I"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 502
On line 8 [lpd], changed "which specifies informatin" to |
"which specifies information"
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 548
The tar command is listed as a system and network administration |
command. It should be listed on p. 134 as a user command.
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Anonymous |
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Page 551
In the [-L option], changed "--tape-lgenth=" to "--tape-length=" |
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
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Page 589
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Eleven lines up from the bottom, the path used to read:
/usr/src/linux/Distribution/initrd.txt
It now reads:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt
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Anonymous |
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Apr 01, 1999 |
