On Friday 06 April 2001 03:04, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:47:53AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 April 2001 09:41, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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.