Re: Feature request or advice on implementation for buffering command output

2019-04-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 03:57:16PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > What would be wrong with doing something like: > > readarray -t last10< <(COMMAND |tail -10) > > That will put the last 10 lines of COMMAND_OUTPUT into > the array 'last10'. Now you can launch another command > to process that last

Re: Feature request or advice on implementation for buffering command output

2019-04-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 3/27/2019 12:49 AM, Anders Brujordet wrote: > Usecase: > You run a command, the output is displayed in your terminal. Now that you > see the output, you would like to grab say an ID from this output. Instead > of coping and pasting the output, I would like to be able to do something > like: > #

Re: Feature request or advice on implementation for buffering command output

2019-03-27 Thread Chet Ramey
On 3/27/19 3:49 AM, Anders Brujordet wrote: > Usecase: > You run a command, the output is displayed in your terminal. Now that you > see the output, you would like to grab say an ID from this output. Instead > of coping and pasting the output, I would like to be able to do something > like: > # gre

Re: Feature request or advice on implementation for buffering command output

2019-03-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 12:49:45AM -0700, Anders Brujordet wrote: > Usecase: > You run a command, the output is displayed in your terminal. Now that you > see the output, you would like to grab say an ID from this output. Instead > of coping and pasting the output, I would like to be able to do som