Errata

UNIX in a Nutshell

Errata for UNIX in a Nutshell

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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".

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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
Printed
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/"

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000
Printed
Page 11
Before the paragraph beginning, "Some options can be invoked

only ...", the following paragraph was added:

<para>
Note: comments such as &ldquo;SVR4 only,&rdquo; or
&ldquo;Solaris only,&rdquo; compare only those two systems.
Many &ldquo;Solaris only&rdquo; commands and/or options are
commonly available on other Unix systems as well.
</para>

 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:

Some systems allow <emphasis>n</emphasis><literal>k</literal>
to specify the size in kilobytes.

 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:

"Print mail headers only."

It now reads:

"Print mail header summary only."

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2000
Printed
Page 118

In line 2, the "-N" option used to read:

"Don't print mail headers."

It now reads:

"Don't print mail header summary."

 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:

"Verbose; show all data. Duplicate lines print as *."

It now reads:

"Verbose; show all data. With this, duplicate lines print as *."

 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:

"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."

 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:

"(tape archive)" (with "tape archive" in bold)

Now the "t," "a," and "r" are in bold.

 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:

$! $! Background exit status.

should read:

$! $! Last background Process ID.

 Anonymous    Jun 01, 2001
Printed
Page 206

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.

 Anonymous    May 01, 2000
Printed
Page 214

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 ..."

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2000
Printed
Page 223

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

 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
in how this command is presented in the right margin. It looks like a colon (with two
vertical dots) rather than a single period.

 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:

"u Unsigned decimal value"

 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:

0.394 inches

(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

 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:

"Remove request macro or string xx."

It now reads:

"Remove request, macro or string xx."

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2000
Printed
Page 402

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."

 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:

"(leave blank)"

It now reads:

"blank"

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2000
Printed
Page 522

The line annotation at the bottom of the page used to read:

"...latest revision byadding updates..."

It now reads:

"...latest revision by adding updates..."

 Anonymous    Jul 01, 2000
Printed
Page 570

The entry for "Programming Pearls" was revised to read:

"...USA, 2000."

instead of :

"...USA, 1886."

 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:

"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."

 Anonymous    Jan 01, 2000