Appendix J. Copyright

The "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide" is copyright, (c) 2000, by Mendel Cooper. This document may only be distributed subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License (version 1.0 or later), http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/. The following license options also apply.

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