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This review only tries to fix language issues, and is not extensive. My comments could also be ambiguous.

## tl;dr


Every chapter will introduce a bunch of comandline utilities and will point to

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command

its respective documentation for further learning. You should expect chapters
describing from the [grep](https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html)
command to [GNU Octave](https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) which is a
scientific programming language. The chapters are independent from each other.

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independent of

describing from the [grep](https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html)
command to [GNU Octave](https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) which is a
scientific programming language. The chapters are independent from each other.
The book is must read if you new to the

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if you are new to

command to [GNU Octave](https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) which is a
scientific programming language. The chapters are independent from each other.
The book is must read if you new to the
[GNU/Linux](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux) command line. If you new are at

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If you are at

The book is community driven and published under [FLOSS
Manual](http://flossmanuals.net). It is a collaborative effort of the
[FSF](http://www.fsf.org/) community. The fun part is you can contribute to this
book by adding new chapters or improve an existing one. I fixed one typo to this

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or by improving


I didn't encounter with any saviour mistakes except one typo. The section of
**Userful customizations** on page number 80 of my printed version, contains
below example:

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the following example:

```

Here, **$arg** is a misprint. A shell variable is never assigned with **$**. It
should be `args=$1`. I myself has corrected the typographical error in the

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I have corrected the


Here, **$arg** is a misprint. A shell variable is never assigned with **$**. It
should be `args=$1`. I myself has corrected the typographical error in the
book. This change will be published maybe in the next release of this book.

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release of the book.

book. This change will be published maybe in the next release of this book.

If you are encountering any mistakes while reading, I request you to fix the
change to [here](http://write.flossmanuals.net/command-line/introduction/). The

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Remove to.

If you are encountering any mistakes while reading, I request you to fix the
change to [here](http://write.flossmanuals.net/command-line/introduction/). The
interface for editing the book is beginner friendly. It took less than 5 minutes
to drive the change.

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May be what you want to say is "make the change" instead of "drive the change"?

@ultimatecoder ultimatecoder merged commit d28e366 into master Mar 3, 2017
@ultimatecoder ultimatecoder deleted the master-bookreview-introduction-to-gnulinux-commandline branch December 5, 2017 12:10
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