ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I want to thank the following people, who helped make this book possible.
First Edition
First, the people who inspired me:
Jenny Watson, acquisitions editor at Wiley Publishing who originally suggested that I write a shell scripting book.
John C. Dvorak, noted columnist and pundit. In an episode of his video podcast, Cranky Geeks, Mr. Dvorak described the process of writing: “Hell. Write 200 words a day, and in a year, you have a novel.” This advice led me to write a page a day until I had a book.
Dmitri Popov wrote an article in Free Software Magazine titled “Creating a book template with Writer,” which inspired me to use OpenOffice.org Writer (and later, LibreOffice Writer) for composing the text. As it turned out, it worked ...
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