Misleading phrasing about $! in documentation

2013-07-31 Thread Chris Down
I think our documentation on $! is a little misleading. `man bash' states: Special Parameters The shell treats several parameters specially. These parameters may only be referenced; assignment to them is not allowed. [...] ! Expands to the process ID of the mo

feature request: capture output of last command and make it available on some hotkey

2013-07-31 Thread Jörn Hees
Hi, i think this would be a very useful feature and i don't seem to be alone: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5955577/bash-automatically-capture-output-of-last-executed-command-into-a-variable http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9024/how-do-i-reuse-the-last-output-from-the-command-line The

Re: feature request: capture output of last command and make it available on some hotkey

2013-07-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 02:09:23AM +0200, Jörn Hees wrote: > i think this would be a very useful feature and i don't seem to be alone: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5955577/bash-automatically-capture-output-of-last-executed-command-into-a-variable Bash has no knowledge of, and no way to int