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  1. Bug #9054
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 9054

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In , FeRD (ferd-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Description of problem:

The GNOME (yelp) documentation for GEdit states, in the section "Features / Piping the Output of a Command to a File":

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You can use gedit to pipe the output of a command to a text file. For example, to pipe the output of an ls command to a text file, type ls | gedit, then press Return.

The output of the ls command is displayed in a new text file in the gedit window.
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That functionality does not currently work in gedit 2.24.3 on either of my installed Fedora 10 systems (i386, x86_64). Near as I can tell, it hasn't worked anytime recently.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.24.3-3.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run "ls | gedit"
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Actual results:
Empty "Unsaved Document 1"

Expected results:
"Unsaved Document 1" (or another title?) containing the output of the 'ls' command

Additional info:

Either the stdin-to-new-document functionality should be fixed, or the documentation should be adjusted to omit description of this nonfeature.