Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2008

The 14th day

Interaction of Emacs with the Shell

Using Emacs? Here are two Emacs Lisp functions that you can put in your ~/.emacs file: 
(defun shell-command-in-buffer (start end command)
  "prompts for command to execute and
replaces output of shell-command-on-region with current buffer."
  (interactive "r\nsKommando: ")
  (shell-command-on-region start end command nil t))
(global-set-key "\M-|" 'shell-command-in-buffer)

(defun insert-shell-command-output (command)
  "prompts for a shell command to execute and puts output after point."
  (interactive "sKommando: ")
  (shell-command command t))
(global-set-key "\C-x!" 'insert-shell-command-output)
With these you can modify your buffer directly with any shell command.
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