Re: Xterm + Bash + Long command lines

From: Carl Holtje ;021;vcsg6; (cwh0803_at_cs.rit.edu)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:40:35 -0500

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Shankar B wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I wonder if there is an easy way to change the position of keyboard
> cursor on the Bash command line by clicking that location with the
> mouse. I use Bash 2.05b and Xterm 4.2.99. The reason I need is that I
> have long command lines like :
>
> paste -d" " aa bb |grep "N5" | cut -d" " -f8,16 | awk '{print $1-$2}'
> | sort -n | uniq -c | ~/bin/addup
>
> and I would like to change the cut option 16 to say 15 without using
> the left/right arrows to go to that location. I use such command lines
> as part of some quick and dirty work once in a while and I don't want
> to write shell scripts or anything of that sort.

$> paste -d" " aa bb |grep "N5" ...
$> ^16^15

Will replace the instance of '16' with '15' and re-execute the command.

Hope it helps!

Carl

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