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2 Features requiring no modifications
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5 These features are provided "for free" to a cmd_-based application
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6 simply by replacing ``import cmd`` with ``import cmd2 as cmd``.
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11 Commands can be loaded from, run from, and saved to text files.
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13 .. automethod:: cmd2.Cmd.do_load
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15 Output redirection
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18 As in a Unix shell, output of a command can be redirected:
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20 - sent to a file with ``>``, as in ``mycommand args > filename.txt``
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21 - piped (``|``) as input to operating-system commands, as in
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22 ``mycommand args | wc``
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23 - sent to the paste buffer, ready for the next Copy operation, by
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24 ending with a bare ``>``, as in ``mycommand args >``.. Redirecting
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25 to paste buffer requires software to be installed on the operating
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26 system, pywin32_ on Windows or xclip_ on *nix.
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28 .. _pywin32:: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
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29 .. _xclip:: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/xclip-linux-insert-files-command-output-intoclipboard/
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43 All cmd_-based applications have access to previous commands with
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44 the up- and down- cursor keys.
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46 All cmd_-based applications on systems with the ``readline`` module
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47 also provide `bash-like history list editing`_.
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49 .. _`bash-like history list editing`: http://www.talug.org/events/20030709/cmdline_history.html
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