[ale] THANKS to all who replied to "ls -rt | rm -i" problem, BUT...ATTN:JoeKnapka

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sun Mar 19 07:57:11 EST 2006


Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> I should've been more explicit,...I agree and understood that the f9 was 
> presumed to be the 9th field but my understanding is that fields begin 
> with 0 and as I [mis]count there are only 8 fields in your example file 
> which would make the filename field #7, but apparently I'm wrong 
> somewhere, hence my question to Joe.

cut starts field counts with 1.

> 
> But even if you start counting at 1 instead of with 0, there are still 
> only 8 fields or I'm, again somehow, confused.

I don't think cut will work anyway based on my previous post.  At least 
it does not work for me.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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