On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:07:56PM -0400, Rick DeNatale wrote: > I'm missing something here, in my case both forms of the -f parm give > the same results: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r > 2.6.15-25-686 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r | cut -d. -f3- > 15-25-686 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -r | cut -d. -f3 > 15-25-686
The -d. makes a dot (.) the delimiter. Since there are no dots left in 15-25-686, there is no change in whether you ask for the 3rd field, or the 3rd field and everything after. Make sense? Owen -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
