A similar question has been asked, but since I am new to Unix
the answer was not clear to me due to the context. What I want to do is to pass the output of one command as an argument to another. I am using git for source control and working on three different branches.
Whenever I need to commit I have to check my branch and then give the corresponding command as
git pull --rebase origin <branch-name>
I wanted to write an alias as git-rebase
and what it would do is that first it will execute git branch
.
The output of git branch look like this
experiment
*master
new feature
So if we have two branches in addition to the master branch then it will show all the branches and the current branch will be star marked. I want to extract the star marked line and then pass the output of this to the above command.
Also I would like to suppress the output of the command git branch
. I am not doing this because I am too lazy to type the whole command, but because I would like to learn more about the power of unix bash. Hoping to learn something from it