Anyway. the book is really good for what it is, its 30 bucks at borders for the 3rd edition.. it covers all of the normal gnu utils, bash, scripting, and a little tiny bit of sed/awk.. the basics that you need. I've never had someone read it and not understand it, and not gain a plethora of information from it.
still bourne shell based? which is, in itself, not a bad thing.
It covers mostly everything posix compliant and tested with korn.. there are some bash specific items in chapter 15.. but it points out whenever possible any non-posix compliant functions
Chapter 15 is described as 'Interactive and nonstandard shell features," discusses features of the shell that either are not formally part of the IEEE POSIX standard shell (but are available in most UNix and Linux shells) or are mainly used interactively instead of in programs.