bash: any way to reuse the last output?

Ben Stringer ben at burbong.com
Fri Jan 23 13:56:19 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 00:39, Jason Dixon wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid I fail to see how any of this is easier than scrolling up
> once in the buffer, and adding a "| grep whatever".

I'm presuming because the resource and time cost of running the original
command is not something you want to repeat. 

Eg. if the find ran over 2TB of disk and took 15 minutes to complete.

Or the output is time-volatile.

Cheers, Ben

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