Xterm + Bash + Long command lines

From: Shankar B (shankar.sb_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: 11 Nov 2004 01:32:28 -0800

Hi all

I wonder if there is an easy way to change the position of keyboard
cursor on the Bash command line by clicking that location with the
mouse. I use Bash 2.05b and Xterm 4.2.99. The reason I need is that I
have long command lines like :

 paste -d" " aa bb |grep "N5" | cut -d" " -f8,16 | awk '{print $1-$2}'
| sort -n | uniq -c | ~/bin/addup

and I would like to change the cut option 16 to say 15 without using
the left/right arrows to go to that location. I use such command lines
as part of some quick and dirty work once in a while and I don't want
to write shell scripts or anything of that sort.

Thanks a lot
--shankar

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