Re: one user input used twice?

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  • To: emelfm2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:47:12 +1100

On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:30:58 +0000
Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear all
> Is it possible to use one user input in two different commands run at
> the same time. For example, I need to change the freq of both my
> cores:
> sh>cpufreq-set -c 0 --max 1.05GHz && cpufreq-set -c 1 --max 1.05GHz
> 
> For this, I use
> cpufreq-set -c 0 --max %{(freq)@Enter max freq for CPU0 (in GHz):}GHz
> && cpufreq-set -c 1 --max %{(freq)@Enter max freq for CPU1 (in
> GHz):}GHz
> 
> Notice that  I use the same input twice. But currently I am
> constrained to enter it twice, instead of once. So would it be
> possible to input some data once, and re-use it multiple times in the
> same command?
 
You could try assigning the macro result to a variable, then use that in the 
command, say ...

SPEED=%{(freq)@Enter max freq for CPU};cpufreq-set -c 0 --max $SPEED && 
cpufreq-set -c 1 --max $SPEED

Never tried this sort of thing myself, not sure if it will work.

Regards
Tom


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