> ----------------------------------------
> From: Gregory Edigarov <ediga...@qarea.com>
> Sent: Wed Dec 24 15:56:02 CET 2014
> To: <misc@openbsd.org>
> Subject: interesting question about shells
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> an interesting question has just come to my head:
> do you know of any shell that could complete from the terminal output of 
> any of the previous command?
> 
> like for example:
> i want it to complete from a result of ls, so I give the ls command, 
> look at its output, then for example
> i type 'cat  <some prefix>TAB' and it completes from the result of ls.
> now if i want for example  ssh to any host, i give command cat 
> .ssh/config, and then ssh <some prefix>TAB.
> is that at all possible?
> 
> --
> With best regards,
>       Gregory Edigarov
> 

Hi

I don't think any shells use that since you can do so in many ways... 

..... | xargs .........

you can use a named pipe ....
command < /dev/mypipe  &
command > /dev/mypipe

etc...
etc...
etc...



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