The goal or rather, the "why" I would want to do this is simple. I want to debug my C programs in Eclipse.
My C executable requires the redirection of an arbitrary number of files and/or file types for parsing, tokenizing or whatever i need to do with them. Those files are too large to read in all at once, so i am using stdin. I want to look for errors in eclipse gdb because I positively HATE working in emacs and/or using DDD or the like. I mean no offense to those who use them. I started programming after the turn of the century. I prefer to use tools made for tomorrow's programming projects; I intend on using the easiest of these tools available to me. I will go to great lengths to avoid being forced to use those archaic (though admittedly powerful) tools. I really don't know why there is no fully formed
IDE built on top of a BASH. Get EVERYTHING a BASH can do inside the GUI and then add the IDE bells and whistles. [likely wishful thinking]
To clarify, I am trying to go through a bash script because if I write it correctly, I will not be forced into opening a shell and manually typing the operators or running the script from that shell. I don't mind if a shell is running in the background, I just don't want to have to interface with it.
There might come a time when I have reached the limits of what an IDE is capable of, and if that time is upon me, I might grudgingly open a shell, but I am not willing to give up just yet.
There... I said it. I am not ashamed. I am a programmer who does not like the command-line. I don't like typing in manual commands when I could have a button for that. When I want to find something, I look for it through a GUI tree using my mouse. I like my mouse. I love my mouse. My name is is jake and I am a mouse-a-holic.