On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:32:12 -0800, Prasanth Kumar wrote: > 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 locate file > t.txt //creates a new file or overwrites file with new data locate file >> t.txt //appends more data to the end of t.txt