on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 07:38:11AM +0800, csj (csj@mindgate.net) wrote:
> On Friday 06 April 2001 03:04, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:47:53AM +0800, csj (csj@mindgate.net)
> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:41, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > > csj (csj@mindgate.net) wrote:
> > > > > Is there a way to copy or paste text into bash without the
> > > > > use of a mouse? I'm thinking of a text file "file.txt" which
> > > > > contains command sequences which I would like to touch up
> > > > > before running.
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't want to use an editor for this. Just the line editing
> > > > > functions of bash. Offhand the only (untested) solution I can
> > > > > think of is something like "cat file.txt >> .bash_history",
> > > > > subsequently invoking another bash session. Is this stupid
> > > > > (dangerous)? Does someone have a better solution?
> > > >
> > > > Just posted here this week. If you have wmaker installed,
> > > > wxpaste and wxcopy do what you'd expect them to.
> > >
> > > It looks interesting. But I forgot to add: --without-X. For those
> > > dire moments when X crashes.
> >
> > I'm no longer clear on what it is you're hoping to accomplish.
> > More below.
>
> Taking a breath of humid air:
>
> Let's say I have a file "commands.list" which contains a series of
> commands. One is the line:
>
> (1) find * -name *.htm | grep -h "http://www.foo.org"; > foo.txt
>
> I want now to do:
>
> (2) find * -name *.htm | grep -h "http://www.foobare.org"; > foo.txt
>
> I would extract the first command (1) from "commands.list" by typing
>
> grep "www.foo.org"
>
> which would of course print to the default stdout, e.g. the terminal.
> End of story. That's all I get. But if there's some way to "pipe" or
> "paste" (note the quotes of doubt) the output of grep and friends to
> the command line itself, I can simply use bash's line-editing
> functions to morph command (1) to command (2). No mousing around
> (admittedly not much of a gray-xercise when you're using gpm or X),
> no retyping, no vi.
Command Substitution:
$ cat <<EOF >cmd.lst
df
ls
uptime
EOF
$ $( grep df cmd.lst )
QED.
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