[CentOS] question on cut

Fri Sep 2 14:17:33 UTC 2005
Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com>

when I do the the cut -d "." -f 2-
I get 2 fields. If my file was

/home/silentm/log/file.machine.log 

I get machine.log not just "log" the suffix??


Jerry