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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 26
csplit: As your example you use csplit to create up to 20

chapters with the command:

csplit -k -f chap. novel '%CHAPTER%' '{20}'

This command will only create a single file containing all lines from
the 20th line containing CHAPTER to the end of file. The correct
command is:

csplit -k -f chap. novel '/CHAPTER/' '{20}'

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 28
date command, under "Format"


%U Day of month (01-31)

should be

%U is the week number of the year starting on Sunday
%d is the day of month


 Anonymous   
Printed Page 44
find command has -iregex, which refers to -regex, but I don't see

-regex explained.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 60
Middle of the page, examples

"that contain either Linux or linux, ..."

In fact it's any combination of upper/lowercase variations on linux.
(linuX, LiNuX, etc..)

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 71
look could (should) explain that /usr/dict/words is a list of

English words. So, by default, look shows all words beginning with
"string". It does a binary search, so the lines in the file must be
sorted!

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 110
Last 1/4 part of the page

The example given states :
'For example, a umask of 2(002) ...'
Yet the umask-example uses 022.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 118
Explanation ln command

explaining the options :

-s Create a symbolic ... : this is NOT the default

default ln creates hard link; -s creates symbolic link

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 126
`$exec tcsh' is not consistent with text just before.

Anonymous   
Printed Page 127
Last paragraph

Figure 1-5 doesn't seem to be the right picture as described in the text.
Picture shows a man page instead of the partitioning sheme.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 129
would be nice to say which version of bash this covers...

version 2.x is pretty different from version 1.x.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 138
"Coprocesses" subsection: I don't think that BASH supports

coprocesses at all. I believe this material was orginally intended
for a chapter on ksh, as this is correct ksh syntax. (from booktech)
This section should be removed.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 146
the echo command has some missing escape characters such as ,

etc.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 185
"built-ins" should be "builtins"

Anonymous   
Printed Page 282
etags: I've found some missing options (-l --language, -R

--no-regex, --no-globals, --members and the always present -v
--version, -h --help). Furthermore the longoption --ignore-indentation
has been associated to -S instead of -I. Maybe the changes/omissions
are due to an older emacs version.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 329
Under "Comparison of valid options" the options for -i and -o

are exchanged. The same mistake appears on p. 23.

 Anonymous