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Re: PATCH
Yes I missed it. Let me modify the implementation to achieve the goal.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Abhijit" == Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Abhijit> There is no way to pass the output of a gdb command to a shell
> Abhijit> command. For example, something similar is not permitted: "(gdb)
> Abhijit> thread apply all bt | vim -". This kind of feature is quite helpful in
> Abhijit> a scenario where a program under debugger has 100s of threads running
> Abhijit> and one wants to search a particular pattern in stack-traces. I have
> Abhijit> implemented a feature which will allow one to pass the output of any
> Abhijit> gdb command to any shell command.
>
> It would be nice to be able to do something like this.
>
> Abhijit> 2011-07-09 Abhijit Halder <abhijit.k.halder@symantec.com>
> Abhijit> ? ? * top.c (execute_command_to_pipe): New function.
> Abhijit> ? ? ?(execute_command): Update.
>
> I don't think this implementation is the right approach.
> It does the wrong thing with some existing valid commands, e.g. "print x|5".
>
> Tom
>