On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 17:46, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: > Mike Klinke wrote: > > saveit find .... > > saveit grep .... > > Then I would have to type saveit everytime.. thanks for all your > effort, but I'll be more exact as to what I really want: use bash > just the way I always have, and when the _unexpected_ wish to > manipulate the last output gets me by surprise, I will do, for instance: > (say, with grep) > > grep whatever $__ > > There.. wouldn't it be nice? :) Okay - this has some problems, but if you really want this, you could work around them. Just roll your own output capture. while read line do bash -c "$line" | tee /tmp/last.out1 mv /tmp/last.out1 /tmp/last.out done This gives you the output of your last command in a fixed file (/tmp/last.out). You can point a shell variable at that file if you prefer the $_ notation - just need to make sure it is set at every pass through the while loop. On the downside, you loose command history, search etc. etc. It may be that a combination of using exec's redirection and a fifo may make this cleaner - an interesting exercise :) Cheers, Ben -- .O. Ben Stringer ..O ben@xxxxxxxxxxx OOO linux|java|majitek|gnu
