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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers pipe output to script as command line argument Post 302189561 by IMTheNachoMan on Saturday 26th of April 2008 12:52:11 PM
Old 04-26-2008
actually i was not looking to write a script.

i wanted a simple way to do this via the command line. and my find was jut an example. i wanted something that would work for any script/command i am running.

make sense or did i just confuse people?
 

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NAME
gretl - GNU Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library SYNOPSIS
gretl [ options ] [ datafile | scriptfile | sessionfile ] DESCRIPTION
gretl is an econometrics package, built around a shared library which may be accessed using a command-line client program (gretlcli) or a graphical user interface (gretl_x11). The program gretl is a wrapper script that calls the GUI if the DISPLAY environment variable is set, otherwise the command-line client. For details, please start up either the GUI or the command-line client and consult the online help, or read the printed manual, which is available in PDF format via the gretl website, http://gretl.sourceforge.net. OPTIONS
These are the options supported by the gretl_x11 program; gretlcli is a little different. -r script, --run script Open a script. -c, --dump Dump the configuration file. -d database, --db database Open a local database. -e, --english Force use of English. -r script, --run script Open a script. -w database, --webdb database Open a remote database. -h, --help Give help information and exit. -v, --version Give version information and exit. FILES
~/.gretl2rc per-user configuration file ~/.gretl directory for user runtime files ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
HOME Specifies the user's home directory DISPLAY Specifies the X window display to use SEE ALSO
gretlcli(1) AUTHOR
The gretl team The gretl team 1.9.5 gretl(1)
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