Errata

", and we have used it that way in some OUT our code examples."

"OUT" should be "of" ?

Note from the Author or Editor:
First, we're really sorry we never got back to this! We try to keep up on errata (we get emails), but somehow a number of them slipped through.

This is verified, I have the error in my first edition copy. But it was fixed later or in the second edition. Thanks for the report though!

The second sentence reads "-L displays your logical path and is the default.s displays your physical
location, ..." Probably should read "-L displays your logical path and is the default. -P displays your
physical location, ..."

Replace: ?For much more on the find?
With: ?For details on the find?

The sentence "For much more on the find command, ..." is a bit disconcerting because nothing at all has
been said about the find command

(61) func_choose

Add a trailing
in the example near the middle of the page:
# 'printf "%b" "See you later Professor Falkin.
"' >&2

Replace "exec" with "eval" in 2 lines at the bottom of the page:
[yY1] ) eval "$choice_yes"
[nN0] ) eval "$choice_no"

{pg62} func_choice.2

"until [ "$CHOICE" = "y" ]; do"

If CHOICE is already set, it won't prompt.
You may want to unset the var.

Add "CHOICE=''"
# cookbook filename: func_choice.2
CHOICE=''
until [ "$CHOICE" = "y" ]; do

single entry, indicating that standard output (2) will be redirected ...

The word "output" should be "error"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Correct, it should read:
single entry, indicating that standard error (2) will be redirected ...

"$THISPACKAGEwith"

There should be a space.

Add a space in "$THISPACKAGE with":
elif [ "$CHOICE" != "y" ]; then
printf "%b" "Overriding $THISPACKAGE with ${CHOICE}
"
THISPACKAGE=$CHOICE

"$ Returns: global variable CHOICE"

$ should be #.

"# Returns: global variable CHOICE"

_printf "%b" "You chose: $CHOICE"_
_printf "%b" "You do not have a favorite color."_

Need "
".

Add "
", should look look like:
printf "%b" "You chose: $CHOICE
"
printf "%b" "You do not have a favorite color.
"

?Thought? --> ?Though?

Note from the Author or Editor:
Thanks to ?Nits? in http://morlockhq.blogspot.com/2008/08/book-review-bash-cookbook.html for this report

Missing spaces after -c
Add space as: ?-c =? and ?-c x?

Add x-refs to 8.4, 13.12

Note from the Author or Editor:
Thanks to ?Nits? in http://morlockhq.blogspot.com/2008/08/book-review-bash-cookbook.html for this report

2nd sentence
"The remainder of the lineup to the ; is the command to be executed."
should be
"The remainder of the line, up to the ;, is the command to be executed."

Note from the Author or Editor:
Line should have a "slash semi-colon" but this web interface might be eating the slash. Se we're talking about " \; ". Otherwise I see the point about the missing space certainly, and the commas arguably.

?hat? --> ?what?

Note from the Author or Editor:
Thanks to ?Nits? in http://morlockhq.blogspot.com/2008/08/book-review-bash-cookbook.html for this report

"... and a -c option followed by a number ..."

should likely be

"... and a -c option followed by a character ..."

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change "number" to "character" as noted.

?fpllowing? --> ?following?

Note from the Author or Editor:
Thanks to ?Nits? in http://morlockhq.blogspot.com/2008/08/book-review-bash-cookbook.html for this report

line 14:
RCDIR=$1 should read SRCDIR=$1

line 23:
$ISOPTS has never been set before

line 35:
since you exit the script unconditionally the iso image will never get burned.

line 40:
$ISOImage should read $ISOIMAGE

Note from the Author or Editor:
Here's how the modified lines should read (only showing changed lines):
14 SRCDIR=$1
23 mkisofs -A "$(cat ~/.cdAnnotation)" \
35 #
36 # burn the CD
37 #
40 cdrecord $OPTS -speed=$SPD dev=${CDDEV} $ISOIMAGE

The variables $PRIV1 on line 54, $PRIV2 on line 55, $HERE on line 69, and $PRIV1 $PRIV2 on line 73
all should be enclosed in double quotes. This would avoid difficulty when filenames contain spaces.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Lines 54,55 have the variable correctly double-quoted at the start of the line, but do not quite inside the echo "". Adding single-quotes around them would be useful for clarity.

Lines 69 and 73 do need double quotes around the variables.

Was:
CRDATE=$6
CRTIME=$7
FILE=$8
}
Add "CRDAY=$7" and increment other positional variables:
CRDATE=$6
CRDAY=$7 <<< Added
CRTIME=$8
FILE=$9
}

Remove unbalanced ')' in last line of solution code.

was:
-printf '%m %u %g %s %t %p
' ) >> archive_file
should be:
-printf '%m %u %g %s %t %p
' >> archive_file

The line beginning ">> file" should begin "n>> file".

From the author:

What I am trying to show in the examples is expansion
of revision meta-data (keywords), so the first instance is literal:
# $Id$
while the second instance is support to be expanded, e.g.:
# $Id: hello,v 1.4 2006/07/21 08:57:53 jp Exp $

Something happened to my $Id$ lines. Between the Aardvark issues and my
other revision control stuff, it probably just got nuked by a revision
control system itself. But they are broken. Here is what they should
be, but the chapter is otherwise OK.

It is supposed to show the addition of they keyword $Id$, then last in
the example the expansion of that keyword. The example examples got nuked.

App D pages:

Missing 'e' in not in second line of 5th comment in table A-17

Wrong:
... not reuse ...

correct:
... note reuse ...

Alignment of classes off, extra space between [[:alpha:]] and [[:ascii:]]
Remove space to line up

/tmp$ mkdir 0700 scripts
missing '-m', should be:
/tmp$ mkdir -m 0700 scripts

This example is not suitable for enterprise or multiuser access (see the "More Resources" section in the
Preface [for clarity add: "of this appendix").

This is in 2 places and is more broken than I thought. The references are in the "See Also" parts of
section, as I originally noted. I'm not sure where the "More Resources" or Preface stuff came from, but
they are wrong.

/home/jp/scripts$ cat hello
#!/bin/sh
$Id$
missing '#' should be:
# $Id$

Trivial (missing '*'):
/home/jp/scripts$ cvs ci -m'Added ID keyword' hello
/home/jp/scripts$ cvs ci -m'* Added ID keyword' hello

/home/jp/scripts$ cat hello
#!/bin/sh
# $Id$
should be:
# $Id: hello,v 1.4 2006/07/21 08:57:53 jp Exp $

/home/jp/scripts$ cat hello
#!/bin/sh
# $Id$
should be:
# $Id: hello,v 1.4 2006/07/21 08:57:53 jp Exp $

/home/jp/bin$ cat hello
#!/bin/sh
# $Id$
should be [1]:
# $Id: hello,v 1.4 2006/07/21 09:18:09 jp Exp $

Cosmetic:
/home/jp/scripts$ vi hello
/home/jp/scripts$ cat hello
should have "/trunk"
/home/jp/scripts/trunk$ vi hello
/home/jp/scripts/trunk$ cat hello

Trivial (missing '*'):
/home/jp/scripts/trunk$ svn ci -m'Added ID keyword' hello
/home/jp/scripts/trunk$ svn ci -m'* Added ID keyword' hello

(Note, first instance of "# $Id$" is correct as-is.)

/home/jp/scripts/trunk$ cat hello
#!/bin/sh
# $Id$
should be [1]:
# $Id: hello 5 2006-07-21 09:09:34Z jp $

/home/jp/scripts/trunk$ cat hello
#!/bin/sh
# $Id$
should be [1]:
# $Id: hello 5 2006-07-21 09:09:34Z jp $

(Note, first instance of "# $Id$" is correct as-is.)

/home/jp/bin$ cat hello
#!/bin/sh
# $Id$
should be [1]:
# $Id: hello,v 1.4 2006/07/21 09:18:09 jp Exp $

580, 3rd line up from bottom,
581, 3rd line up from see also
# $Id: hello,v 1.4 2006/07/21 08:57:53 jp Exp $

586, 17th line up from bottom, more or less
587, 3rd line up from see also
# $Id: hello 5 2006-07-21 09:09:34Z jp $

591, 22nd or so line up from bottom
592, 2nd line from top
# $Id: hello,v 1.4 2006/07/21 09:18:09 jp Exp $

594, 3rd line of 2nd para in Document Comparison, remove "in Chapter 12"
for consistency with the rest of the xrefs in the book.

Missing 432, 451, other?

sed 277, 431, 451