Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Steve Searle wrote:
Around 10:57am on Sunday, November 25, 2007 (UK time), Robert P. J. Day scrawled:
But your book is probably a bit out of date, ...
2007.
What is the book and who is the author?
"The Linux Programmer's Toolbox," by John Fusco, which, other than
that oddity, seems to be a very good book.
It's a pretty basic error. I'd be looking for more.
http://www.techbookreport.com/tbr0304.html
http://www.hcw.be/p.aspx?p=G9939
Hah!
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/08/book-review-the-linux-programmers-toolbox/
Cites an error in the book relating to query tables, then has this text
(which might be the reviewer's), Try this example:
rpm -qa --qf '%vendorn' | sort | uniq -c
1 Adobe Systems, Incorporated
12 (none)
1 RealNetworks, Inc
838 Red Hat, Inc.
1 Sun Microsystems
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-linux-programmers-toolbox.html
http://browse.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781585672097&itm=2
Generally, the reviews are pretty good.
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Cheers
John
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