On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:13:16PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> If you told us exactly what you want to achieve, we might be able > >> to help you better. The OP did say exactly what he wants - that the output of one command should be made available to the user so that he can edit it before feeding it back to the shell. > > I just want to know in a very general sense how to use the output of > > commands without typing them in manually. It seemed to me that as > > *nix was developed for the CLI interface (with GUIs coming around > > only years later) that this would be possible. > > > > I do not have a specific task at hand. > You haven't resolved one particular bit of ambiguity in your question: My understanding is that he is talking about something that amounts to an "interactive pipe" where the output of a program is made available to the user in an editable buffer that he can play with before feeding back to another program's input. > Are you asking about manually selecting part of the output of a > command(s) and using it to assemble another command (as opposed to > piping the whole output from one command into another)? That's pretty much how I understood it, although I disagree with the "as opposed to".. I don't see an "opposition"... more of an extension to the traditional pipe. Not sure whether it's feasible - *nix utilities were designed around the traditional pipe model where the _raw_ output of a program, not its printed translation is fed to another program, or even whether it is desirable.. > If so, another possible answer for you is gpm. (On a virtual console, > lets you select and copy text and paste it into the command line being > assembled (or into whatever process is reading from your virtual > console) using the mouse.) I also suggested the copying/pasting approach via gnu/screen's mechanism but that's not really what the OP was asking and maybe there should be a smarter alternative..?? CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
