Marc-Jano Knopp sent corrections and clarifications on DOS batch files.
Hyun Jin Cha found several typos in the document in the process of doing a Korean translation. Thanks for
pointing these out.
Andreas Abraham sent in a long list of typographical errors and other corrections. Special thanks!
Others contributing scripts, making helpful suggestions, and pointing out errors were Gabor Kiss, Leopold
Toetsch, Peter Tillier, Marcus Berglof, Tony Richardson, Nick Drage (script ideas!), Rich Bartell, Jess
Thrysoee, Adam Lazur, Bram Moolenaar, Baris Cicek, Greg Keraunen, Keith Matthews, Sandro Magi, Albert
Reiner, Dim Segebart, Rory Winston, Lee Bigelow, Wayne Pollock, "jipe," "bojster," "nyal," "Hobbit,"
"Ender," "Little Monster" (Alexis), "Mark," "Patsie," "vladz," Peggy Russell, Emilio Conti, Ian. D. Allen,
Hans-Joerg Diers, Arun Giridhar, Dennis Leeuw, Dan Jacobson, Aurelio Marinho Jargas, Edward Scholtz,
Jean Helou, Chris Martin, Lee Maschmeyer, Bruno Haible, Wilbert Berendsen, Sebastien Godard, Bjön
Eriksson, John MacDonald, John Lange, Joshua Tschida, Troy Engel, Manfred Schwarb, Amit Singh, Bill
Gradwohl, E. Choroba, David Lombard, Jason Parker, Steve Parker, Bruce W. Clare, William Park, Vernia
Damiano, Mihai Maties, Mark Alexander, Jeremy Impson, Ken Fuchs, Jared Martin, Frank Wang, Sylvain
Fourmanoit, Matthew Sage, Matthew Walker, Kenny Stauffer, Filip Moritz, Andrzej Stefanski, Daniel Albers,
Jeffrey Haemer, Stefano Palmeri, Nils Radtke, Sigurd Solaas, Serghey Rodin, Jeroen Domburg, Alfredo
Pironti, Phil Braham, Bruno de Oliveira Schneider, Stefano Falsetto, Chris Morgan, Walter Dnes, Linc
Fessenden, Michael Iatrou, Pharis Monalo, Jesse Gough, Fabian Kreutz, Mark Norman, Harald Koenig, Dan
Stromberg, Peter Knowles, Francisco Lobo, Mariusz Gniazdowski, Sebastian Arming, Chetankumar
Phulpagare, Benno Schulenberg, Tedman Eng, Jochen DeSmet, Juan Nicolas Ruiz, Oliver Beckstein, Achmed
Darwish, Dotan Barak, Richard Neill, Albert Siersema, Omair Eshkenazi, Geoff Lee, Graham Ewart, JuanJo
Ciarlante, Cliff Bamford, Nathan Coulter, Ramses Rodriguez Martinez, Evgeniy Ivanov, Craig Barnes,
George Dimitriu, Kevin LeBlanc, Antonio Macchi, Tomas Pospisek, David Wheeler, Erik Brandsberg,
YongYe, Andreas Kühne, Pádraig Brady, Joseph Steinhauser, and David Lawyer (himself an author of four
HOWTOs).
My gratitude to Chet Ramey and Brian Fox for writing Bash, and building into it elegant and powerful
scripting capabilities rivaling those of ksh.
Very special thanks to the hard-working volunteers at the Linux Documentation Project. The LDP hosts a
repository of Linux knowledge and lore, and has, to a great extent, enabled the publication of this book.
Thanks and appreciation to IBM, Red Hat, Google, the Free Software Foundation, and all the good people
fighting the good fight to keep Open Source software free and open.
Belated thanks to my fourth grade teacher, Miss Spencer, for emotional support and for convincing me that
maybe, just maybe I wasn't a total loss.
Thanks most of all to my wife, Anita, for her encouragement, inspiration, and emotional support.
38.6. Disclaimer
(This is a variant of the standard LDP disclaimer.)
No liability for the contents of this document can be accepted. Use the concepts, examples and information at
your own risk. There may be errors, omissions, and inaccuracies that could cause you to lose data, harm your
system, or induce involuntary electrocution, so proceed with appropriate caution. The author takes no
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