discuss: GNU Linux Command Line Tools Summary Ready for inclusion
Subject:
Re: GNU Linux Command Line Tools Summary Ready for inclusion
From:
"Michael T Kerrisk" ####@####.####
Date:
28 Feb 2005 02:41:07 -0000
Message-Id: <12399.1109558440@www33.gmx.net>
> [snip]
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 03:48:01PM +1100, Gareth Anderson wrote:
> > Many of the commands were taken from man pages.
> >
> > So its possible that I've used a bad source or got lucky when testing
> > the commands as somone pointed out (David?) with the tr command.
> >
> > " It's already been reviewed by a
> > > sampling review by 2 persons and it failed. "
> >
> > 1 reviewer helped correct grammatical and found a couple technical
> > errors (probably one or two). This reviewer did run out of time to get
> > through the entire document, it is very large.
> >
> > The second reviewer found style mistakes in the way I write. I
> > attempted to correct those errors throughout the document.
> >
> > If you are referring to brief glances over the document, yes 3 or 4
> > errors have being found.
> > There are ~100 commands listed there, so a 3-4% error rate so far.
> > No I'm not trying to say its acceptable, I will try to fix it.
>
> But my sampling of it found about a 100% error rate. Some commands were
> OK but others had a couple of errors. I only sampled about 1% of the
> doc and found a few errors, but the xargs errors were really bad ones.
> I just now took another sample of a couple of commands and found a
> few errors. So I still think that the error rate is approximately 100%
> That's far too large to be acceptable.
Yes. To reiterate: David and I have both indicated that there
are likely *many* errors, but pointed out only a few of the
more obvious ones.
Cheers,
Michael
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