[clug] Another esoteric question...

[Michael Cohen]

Of course if you are running from within screen you could just press
ctrl-a escape to enter copy scrollback mode where you can highlight
the output and place it into a file to run sort of etc. Screen scrolls
back quite a long way and can hold quite a lot of output.

Michael.

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Peter Barker
<pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Andrew Janke wrote:
>
>> It then outputs the result and I realise I wanted it sorted on the
>> second column.
>
> The major problem is that the shell doesn't know ahead of time you want that
> data.  It's probably not reasonable for the shell to keep stuff around on
> spec; the output of a command is effectively unlimited, after all.  The
> shell *could* keep it in memory - but 99% of the time it will be unused, and
> memory is expensive.  It could keep it on disk - but hard disk is expensive
> (time-wise ;)
>
>> Then I have to make a choice, run it all again and add the '| sort' to
>> the end or
>> copy and paste it into a file and just run sort on that.
>
> Well.... dare I say it... you could just run the shell from within emacs :-)
>  That's basically your copy-paste solution, but at least you're already in
> something which is *good* at that!
>
>> Andrew Janke
>
> yours,
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