From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pineapple.bbn.com ([128.11.0.16]) by archone.tamu.edu with SMTP id <18991>; Fri, 18 Oct 1991 14:49:07 -0500 Received: from LITCHI.BBN.COM by pineapple.bbn.com id ; Fri, 18 Oct 91 15:48:34 -0400 From: Rich Salz Received: by litchi.bbn.com id ; Fri, 18 Oct 91 15:48:30 EDT Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1991 14:48:30 -0500 Message-Id: <9110181948.AA11154@litchi.bbn.com> To: byron@archone.tamu.edu, rc@archone.tamu.edu Subject: Re: how to drop the nth element of a list I don't have seq. This seems to work okay: x=(a b c d e f) n=3 { for (i in $x ) echo $i } | sed -e $n^d a b d e