bash cli
Henk Breimer
acbk at zeelandnet.nl
Wed Aug 22 14:43:59 UTC 2007
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:57:21 +0200
"Stuart Murray-Smith" <eight32 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Oh dear, I've forgotten what the bash cli is to see the output of
> > > a command line input (it dumps result to screen). Pretty much
> > > the same bash functionality as Ctrl-R gives one a rolling history
> > > of entered commands.
> >
> > You don't mean just using the cursor up and down arrows to step
> > through what was last command line typed, one command line at a
> > time?
> >
> > e.g. If the last three command lines I'd typed had been "cd /tmp"
> > then "ls" then "touch something", cursoring up would show those
> > command lines again, one at a time, at the current prompt, and I
> > could press enter to re-issue that command (or edit it, first)
>
> Thanks Tim, but I think I should steer away from the history stack
> example and emphasise that it's more a forking output to the
> foreground (stdout) thing.
>
> As I described earlier, if I had to enter:
>
> # pidof mysqld
>
> say, and this cli returned null, there is something that I can do to
> pipe the actual return to stdout, even if it's default is to return
> null to monitor (stdout).
>
> HTH with the description :-)
>
> Stu@
>
man tee ?
Henk
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