On Tue,19.May.09, 11:13:34, Eric Gerlach wrote: > 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 Building a bit on Eric's ideea: $ first_command | pipedit second_command where 'pipedit' is a small shell script (pseudocode): stdin > /tmp/tempfile $EDITOR /tmp/tempfile $@ < /tmp/tempfile rm /tmp/tempfile The only trouble with this is that some commands need a '-' parameter to read from stdin. It might be possible to solve it by greping for specific keywords in the '--help' output of second_command. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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