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Re: PATCH
>>>>> "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