On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 22:10, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: > Mike Klinke wrote: > > Perhaps you could create a perl, tcl, or bash script as a front end > > which you can "alias" to find which will store the stdout in a file > > for you. > > No go.. that would only work for find, and not the hundreds of > other commands.. > > c q wrote: > > You could always save the output to a file and then use cat > > e.g. locate so > t.txt > > cat t.txt | grep whatever > > That doesn't do me much good, since the tee would be much better.. but > the main question now is: how to append it without having to type it > every time? It's supposed to be for every command executed, since the > will to manipulate only sparks afterwards. > > Thanks all, > -- > Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto > This will not answer your question as you still need to rerun the commands but the typing is pretty short: locate so !! | grep whatever -- Regards, Prasanth