Question

Normally I would break things into separate actions and copy and paste the output into another input:

$ which git
/usr/local/bin/git
$ sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain /usr/local/bin/git

Any quick hack to get output into input?
something like:
$echo which wget | sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain

Answer 1

set -vx
myGit=$(which git)
gitDir=${myGit#/git} ; gitDir=${gitDir#/bin}/git
echo sudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain ${gitDir}

Remove the set -vx and the echo on the last line when you’re sure this performs the action that you require.

It’s probably possible to reduce the number of keystrokes required, but I think this version is easier to understand what techniques are being used, and how they work.

IHTH