nitpicky, yes, but it occasionally irritates me that "cut" will print fields, not in the order you specify them with the "-f" option, but in the original order in the source text, to wit: $ cut -d: -f1,7 /etc/passwd root:/bin/bash bin:/sbin/nologin daemon:/sbin/nologin ... $ cut -fd: -f7,1 /etc/passwd root:/bin/bash bin:/sbin/nologin daemon:/sbin/nologin ... is there really a reason that cut refuses to acknowledge the order of the fields as supplied by the user? some historical reason, perhaps, that we can now all make fun of and wonder what they were smoking at the time? rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
