On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:24:39AM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:13:16PM EDT, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > >> Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > ... > > > >> 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. > > How do you disagree that manually copying and pasting command output vs. > vs. piping complete, unseen command output are very different?
I didn't realize you meant using copy/paste - which obviously is totally different from piping the output of a program to the input of another program. Compare: $ cat Makefile | vim - with $ less Makefile .. followed by a gnu copy/paste of the contents of "Makefile" into an empty vim buffer for instance. Using the second method, all those pesky <TAB> aka "^I" characters have been replaced by spaces. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
