On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:11:17PM -0400, Bruce Harding wrote: > > Someone sent me this from another group. > > identify -format '%f: %wx%h\n' * | grep '[02-9][0-9][0-9]\|1[5-9][0-9]' | > cut -d ' ' -f 1 > > I'm unfamiliar with the command "cut" does it put my files in a directory or > file? Is is cutting the large files from the rest? If so where is the info > going? it just cuts strings into fields. the "-d ' '" part means "fields separated by spaces", and the "-f 1" part means to print field one. e.g., mort@socrates:~$ echo "this is a test" | cut -f 1 -d ' ' this mort@socrates:~$ echo "this is a test" | cut -f 3 -d ' ' a mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE