Acknowledgments for the First Edition
This project has been an interesting experience and
wouldn't have been possible without the help of a
number of people. Firstly, I'd like to thank Brian
Fox and Chet Ramey for creating bash and making
it the polished product it is today. Thanks also to Chet Ramey for
promptly answering all of my questions on bash
and pointing out my errors.
Many thanks to Bill Rosenblatt for Learning the korn
Shell, on which this book is based; Michael
O'Reilly and Michael Malone at iiNet Technologies
for their useful comments and suggestions (and my net.connection!);
Chris Thorne, Justin Twiss, David Quin-Conroy, and my mum for their
comments, suggestions, and corrections; Linus Torvalds for the Linux
operating system which introduced me to bash and
was the platform for all of my work on the book; Brian Fox for
providing a short history of bash; David Korn
for information on the latest Korn shell. Thanks also to Depeche Mode
for "101" as a backdrop while I
worked, Laurence Durbridge for being a likable pest and never failing
to ask "Finished the book yet?" and
Adam (for being in my book).
The sharp eyes of our technical reviewers picked up many mistakes.
Thanks to Matt Healy, Chet Ramey, Bill Reynolds, Bill Rosenblatt, and
Norm Walsh for taking time out to go through the manuscript.
The crew at O'Reilly were indispensable in getting
this book out the door. I'd like to thank Lenny
Muellner for providing me with the formatting tools for the job,
Chris Reilley for the figures, and Edie Freedman for the cover
design. On the production end, I'd like to thank
David Sewell for his copyediting, Clairemarie Fisher
O'Leary for managing the production process, Michael
Deutsch and Jane Ellin for their production assistance, Ellen Siever
for tools support, Kismet McDonough for providing quality assurance,
and Seth Maislin for the index.
I'm grateful to Frank Willison for taking me up on
my first piece of email to ORA: "What about a book
on bash?"
Last but by no means least, a big thank you to my editor, Mike
Loukides, who helped steer me through this project.
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