On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Eric Gerlach <egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 01:31:30PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > 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..?? >> > >> >> Actually, it seems that copy-paste is in fact what I am looking for. I >> just figured that this would be common enough to be a part of the >> shell itself, not something that would require workarounds or hacks. I >> intend to learn screen. > > If you're looking to take the output from a command, edit it, then pipe it > back > into another command, may I suggest your favourite editor? > > vim can do it like so (for example): > > (in command mode) > !!ls > (edit to your heart's content) > :%!wc > > I'm sure emacs can do it too, but I don't know emacs all that well. > > Cheers,
I tried this: $ which firefox | vim - vim opened. Now when I press !! :.! appears at bottom. Next I type |s and I get this error: /bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `|' /bin/bash: -c: line 0: `(|s) < /tmp/v754567/14 >/tmp/v754567/15 2>&1' shell returned 2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
