Hello David, On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 14:21:21 -0400, David A. De Graaf <dad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This line has too many fields. 'man fstab' says there must be 6; > you have 9. It should be thus: > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 That's because I copied the line out by hand. I did not have the luxury of being able to copy and paste the text into an email. At the time that I wrote that email, I did not even have internet access. I certainly would not have been aware of the importance of the blank spaces in the line. > > But you used awk, not grep, to extract the line. Why? I knew how to use awk, not grep. > Awk might (but doesn't in this case) introduce confusion. I did not know what, if any, confusion awk might introduce. > Grep is simpler and more precise in this instance, eg > > grep cdrom /etc/fstab Sounds good, I'll try to remember it for next time. Geoff
