<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 9, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Elaine Meng wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Francesco,<br>Well, it's not really a trick, you can just use the "serialNumber" attribute like other attributes in the command line, for example:<br><br>select @/serialNumber=19<br>sel @/serialNumber>12 and serialNumber<16</div></blockquote><br></div><div>If you will be doing many commands with serial numbers, you can reduce the strain on your fingers with the "alias" command, e.g.:</div><div><br></div><div>alias sn @/serialNumber</div><div><br></div><div>then the two commands Elaine gave would be:</div><div><br></div><div>select sn = 19</div><div>sel sn > 12 & sn < 16</div><div><br></div><div>Note that alias is a simple textual substitution and that therefore there have to be spaces around the "sn" (e.g. "sn > 12" rather than "sn>12").</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br></body></html>