The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
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Description |
Submitted by |
Date submitted |
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7th example |
In "File and Directory Wildcards" section, the ls output for "chap{3,6}.txt" should not include "chap3.txt", since there is no such file in the directory.
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Ethan Isenberg |
Jun 20, 2016 |
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Chapter 4, Section "MORE POWERFUL CAPABILITIES", 3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence |
This is the sentence:
"The yw command copies (“yanks”) one word, yy yanks the line, yyn yanks n lines (for example, yy5 yanks five lines), y1 yanks a single character, and ynw yanks n words (y5w yanks five words, for example)."
Change to (there are 3 changes):
The yw command copies (“yanks”) one word, yy yanks the line, nyy yanks n lines (for example, 5yy yanks five lines), yl yanks a single character, and ynw yanks n words (y5w yanks five words, for example).
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aphilipp |
Nov 15, 2016 |
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Table 5-3 |
This is the table entry:
-cmin time
True if the file has been modified within the last time minutes.
Change to:
-cmin time
True if the file has been modified time minutes ago. Prepend + for "more than" or - for "less than".
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aphilipp |
Nov 22, 2016 |
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Chapter 5, Section "Using find to Identify Recently Changed Files", 3rd paragraph, 1st sentence |
This is the sentence:
"These first two tests are for files that were changed exactly 60 minutes ago (no surprise, there aren't any) and ..."
The test that the above sentence is referring to is:
$ find . -cmin 60 -print
When I run this command, I am finding that it finds files changed more than 59 minutes ago and up to 60 minutes ago. So the text "exactly 60 minutes ago" is not correct.
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aphilipp |
Nov 22, 2016 |
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Chapter 5, Section "Further Refinements to find", code example |
This is the line:
$ find . -type f \( -name "*.txt" -or -name ".htm" \) -print
Change to:
$ find . -type f \( -name "*.txt" -or -name "*.htm" \) -print
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André Philipp |
Nov 22, 2016 |
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Chapter 7, Section "Running a Command in the Background", 7th paragraph |
This is the paragraph:
"In bash, you can put an entire sequence of commands separated by semicolons (;) into the background by putting an ampersand (&) at the end of the command line. In other shells, enclose the command sequence in parentheses before adding the ampersand:"
I am finding that a command sequence in bash must also be enclosed in parentheses in order to put the entire sequence into the background. Without the parentheses, only the last command in the sequence gets put into the background.
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aphilipp |
Nov 27, 2016 |
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Chapter 7, Section "Checking on a Process", TIP, 1st sentence |
This is the sentence:
"In the preceding list, notice the OS kernel extensions module kextd, the configuration management daemon configd, the audio utility coreaudiod, the low-level disk management program diskarbitrationd, the CoreServices, etc."
Contrary to what this sentence says, the process "coreaudiod" does not appear in the preceding list.
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aphilipp |
Nov 27, 2016 |
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Chapter 7, Section "kill", 2nd code section, 10th line |
This is the line:
$ kill 981
In order to match the text in the paragraph that follows, change to:
$ kill 982
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aphilipp |
Nov 28, 2016 |
| Printed |
Page Page 127
Halfway down the page |
The code example:
$ ls -l IMG_1912.JPG
is alleged to list a file with the different name:
IMG_1783.JPG
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Anonymous |
Jul 18, 2023 |
| PDF |
Page Page 163
Halfway through "The Process Didn't Die When I Told It To" |
The book says: '. . . "terminate with extreme prejudice," a nod to the popular James Bond movie series."
But the Oxford English Dictionary says that this usage of the word "prejudice" is U.S. English (and James Bond isn't American). And the movie that Google seems to most often associate with the the phrase is "Apocalypse Now".
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Anonymous |
Jul 19, 2023 |
| ePub |
Page 31
most of the page |
apple removed the ability to use ftp from the terminal. One can only use the sftp process which evidently orielly.com does not use or allow access to.
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Anonymous |
Feb 26, 2018 |
| PDF |
Page 33
hint image |
use the vi editor to create a file called .profile in your home directory (/Users/your_name),
SHOULD BE
use the vi editor to create a file called .bash_profile in your home directory (/Users/your_name),
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Wael Assaf |
Sep 03, 2017 |
| Printed |
Page 58
Halfway through only paragraph on this page |
"Notice that the first directory shown in figure 3-6, Desktop, is executable by taylor but completely closed off to everybody else on the system".
The first non-hidden directory is Applications, and the comment is correct for this directory. The second is "Desktop", and this comment is completely wrong.
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Mark Molson |
Mar 02, 2020 |
| ePub |
Page 119
Code example |
Code example reads:
$ find /usr -type f -user $USER -perm +u=w
Should be:
$ find /usr/bin -type f -user $USER -perm +u=w
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Naoya Kanai |
Mar 26, 2016 |