on Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 07:38:11AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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.
Command Substitution:
$ cat <<EOF >cmd.lst
df
ls
uptime
EOF
$ $( grep df cmd.lst )
QED.
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