| Chapter 3, page 51 | Change the last three lines of the last paragraph to "... (indicated by a minus sign) from the first line through the sixth line. Similarly the +1,5 indicates that the hunk covers colors.2 from the first line through the fifth line." (Michael M. Dowd) |
| Chapter 3, page 57 |
(first printing of the book only):
Third paragraph, change gzip to bzip2.
(first printing of the book only): Second paragraph under bunzip2 and bzcat Decompress a File: In the fourth sentence, change "...the following example redirects the output of zcat..." to "...the following example redirects the output of bzcat...". (Gina Ramirez) |
| Chapter 3, page 58-59 |
Page 58, second paragraph under tar: Packs and Unpacks Files: Delete the following words:
"the letter a to indicate that it is appending to the archive. This letter is followed by"
Page 59, first example (first printing of the book only): Remove the letter a from each of the three lines of output of the first command. Also remove 2005 from each of the three lines of output of the third command. (Jess Gorzo) |
| Chapter 4, page 82 | Figure 4-6: Change ../home to .. and ../home/jenny to ../jenny |
| Chapter 6, page 157 | The arrow from the } key should point to the left end of the blank line below the paragraph that the cursor is in. (Rick Ord) |
| Chapter 6, page 176 |
Second example, change autoindent to ignorecase.
Third example, change ai to ic. (Rick Ord) |
| Chapter 6, page 184 | First example, change !'sort to !'qsort. (Rick Ord) |
| Chapter 11, page 484 | Bottom of the last paragraph, change $4 to $6. (Theodore Papamarkou) |
| Chapter 11, page 525 |
The answer posted for exercise 18 was wrong. It is now correct.
The line
if [[ ! -d $pathname ]] should be if [[ ! -d "${pathname%%/*}" ]] Without this change, the sequence of commands makepath2 a/b followed by makepath2 a/c generates an error. (HongLiang) |
| Chapter 12, page 536 | Change the print command in both examples to print "2^" n, 2**n. (Pop Marin) |
| Chapter 12, page 548 |
Change the sort line in the word_usage example to
sort -k 2nr -k 1f,2 (Melvin Davidson) |