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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.

The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.

Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By
Printed Page 43
4th line of text in paragraph "Calculating file size'

size is NOT reported in kilobytes but in blocks (512b according to Mac OSX in a
nutshell covering OSX 10.2 / 2003 page 594). This corresponds to what the Finder
reports.

Using -k would give size in KB.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 102
second example

$ sort verybigfile > big-sorted-output

Missing the & at the end of that line.

Additionally, the last output line for this example is not properly indented.

 Anonymous