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from within vi, pipe a chunk of lines to a command line and replace the chunk with the result

Terminal - from within vi, pipe a chunk of lines to a command line and replace the chunk with the result
!}sort
2009-03-28 00:18:39
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from within vi, pipe a chunk of lines to a command line and replace the chunk with the result

The vi key sequence !}command will send the file contents from the cursor

to the next blank line as STDOUT to the command specified

and replace that sequence of file lines with the output of the command.

For example: sorting a block of data - !}sort

The sequence !{command will do the same but "upwards" (from the current position towards the start of the file.

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this works in normal mode, not command mode as I first thought.

Comment by bwoodacre 216 weeks and 6 days ago

I think you mean the block will be passed as STDIN to the command...

A more useful(for me) variant is to highlight the text/lines in visual mode then type ":!sort"(the colon seems to be optional), leaving out the curly brace. You can also specify line ranges "10,20!sort" to sort lines 10 through 20. You can also pass parameters to the command (":!sort -f" to ignore case).

Comment by leper421 205 weeks and 4 days ago

@leper421

No, I mean as STDOUT from using "!}sort" inside vi which is the piped to the sort command. It is, of course, STDIN for the sort command.

Comment by mpb 70 weeks and 5 days ago

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