On Friday 23 January 2004 00:46, 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, my pleasure, it's an interesting request. > 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? :) > I'm pretty sure bash doesn't have this capability but there are several other shells that are commonly used. Since this seems a resonable function for a shell to provide, in a limited fashion, it may be that another shell already has this capability? Regards, Mike Klinke