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Errata for bash Pocket Reference

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Version	Location	Description	Submitted by	Date submitted
Printed	Page 9 Text immediately following first brace expansion form	The sentence, "Expands to preXpost, preYpost, and so on" is syntactically correct, but it isn't technically correct. The sentence is depicting what the expansion would look like; therefore, the "," between preXpost and preYpost is incorrect. Suggest removal of the comma or possibly the following to match the form, Expands to preXpost preYpost ...	Kevin Day	Aug 20, 2012
PDF	Page 9 Top of page	The book insists that the {a..b} construct is valid only for integers, but it seems that "{a..z}" generates the series "a b c d ... z". Does this construct officially support letters as well? I can even use "{a..z..2}". Is this supposed to be valid, or is this just a weird accident one should not count on?	Robert P. J. Day	May 05, 2014
Printed	Page 12 United States	Omissions: Page 12's Command Forms lacks the "simple command" which I believe is cmd [arg]... I was seeking its definition, because there is an additional command form I think is also missing: EnvVar=value... simple_command which sets that the environment variable to that value for the execution of that command only. (The variable is neither set no exported for subsequent commands. And if the variable is already set, its former value is unchanged after this simple command.) I included the ... meta-syntax to suggest that multiple assignments are allowed, such as A=a AA=aa printenv \| grep '^A'	W. Dean Stanton	Nov 21, 2014
PDF	Page 17 "Examples"	Comment mentions "part3k", should be simply "part3".	Robert P. J. Day	May 04, 2014
Printed	Page 40 Table of Event designators	The 'Command' for the 'Description' "Current command line up to this point" should be, !# instead of, # (Also suggest the removal of the author's editorial on the command's usefulness.)	Kevin Day	Aug 20, 2012
Printed	Page 40 Event Designator Table	I should have provided an example of the !# usage... mv somefile ./someplace/!#^ or mv somefile ./someplace/!#:1	Kevin Day	Nov 29, 2012