> Like you said, it does require foreknowledge of the output. So there is > no way to make a one-size-fits-all solution, be it a command-line trick > or a program. > > If you told us exactly what you want to achieve, we might be able to > help you better. >
I just want to know in a very general sense how to use the output of commands without typing them in manually. It seemed to me that as *nix was developed for the CLI interface (with GUIs coming around only years later) that this would be possible. I do not have a specific task at hand. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org