Hi,
How do I manage to get an output of a command for editing in CLI?

Lets say that I grep some particular command from man pages and I wanted to press "arrow up" and have the command available for editing and then running?

Thanks...

Pressing arrow up in most shells means accessing the previous command in its current history. Since you've never executed the command that's not possible without some work. BASH allows you to inject commands into history (see 'history -s') so that's not the problem. Half of the problem IMHO is receiving an arbitrary string from arbitrary output. The other half is that man pages examples are just that: examples. Apart from "simple" commands that don't require switches or command line arguments those examples may either not work on your system or even b0rk it completely. So I wouldn't recommend doing this in the first place and not even if you're a seasoned Linux admin. Alternatively you could start your shell session by running everything inside screen (unless you can use mouse paste actions obviously) and copy / paste with CTRL+A,[ / CTRL+A,].

you can send the output to standard output " >"
for example the "help" option in most programs

unSpawn thanks for you input.

John VV that was my first idea but then I would need to make it a script in order to run it, am I right?

I found something like this:

But did not find a way how to edit it before running. And I would need to grep exact line as well.

If I understood it well you want to execute some commands to construct a new command and you want to edit it using CLI. Actually the arrow up and similar keys work on the history, therefore you will never be able to push arrow up to recall a never-executed command. It looks like you need to execute it first.

What I can imagine is to start editing an empty command line - or with your initial command (that will invoke an editor, like vi), execute your prepared commands to get the result into the editor - of course you can edit it - and finally when you close that editor the new command (the actual content) will be executed.

So I did not find a solution that would suit me but thanks for your support anyway.
Cheers!

Generally one would use "highlight" + "middle click" for this. If you don't have a mouse and are working on a CLI-only system, then you'd probably just redirect to a file as John VV suggested, edit the command in the file, and then execute the file like a script.

Sorry I did not provide all info. Only terminal without mouse available.

Something at https://www.digitalocean.com/communi...on-a-linux-vps perhaps?

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Using grep to extract the command into a file, then chmod +x the file into an executable script, edit it to add #! /bin/sh as the first line. then run the script, by typing ./scriptname

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Thanks for your input guys.
The script way might be closest to my idea.

I am marking this thread as solved.