The Linux Command Line, 3rd Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to thank the following people who helped make this book possible:

Jenny Watson, acquisitions editor at Wiley Publishing, who originally suggested that I write a shell scripting book.

John C. Dvorak, noted columnist and pundit. In an episode of his video podcast, Cranky Geeks, Mr. Dvorak described the process of writing: “Hell. Write 200 words a day, and in a year, you have a novel.” This advice led me to write a page a day until I had a book.

Dmitri Popov wrote an article in Free Software Magazine titled “Creating a Book Template with Writer,” which inspired me to use OpenOffice.org Writer (and later, LibreOffice Writer) for composing the text. As it turned out, it worked wonderfully.

Karen M. Shotts contributed a lot ...