From 816fdb8d9bb66a758d302e02c320eeab7f2c66f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MorganGeek <wattiez.morgan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 16:17:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] helpers for capturing command outputs

---
 dot_zsh_functions | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dot_zsh_functions b/dot_zsh_functions
index dc9e987..0d02973 100644
--- a/dot_zsh_functions
+++ b/dot_zsh_functions
@@ -455,6 +455,12 @@ function rssadd() {
     newsboat
 }
 
+# Via https://stackoverflow.com/a/58598185/2309958
+# capture the output of a command so it can be retrieved with ret
+function cap () { tee /tmp/capture.out}
+# return the output of the most recent command that was captured by cap
+function ret () { \cat /tmp/capture.out }
+
 # Package / Dependencies management helpers
 function adhocbis() {
     local ansible_output=$(adhoc "$*")