[Chicago-talk] Best perl editor on Linux?
Andy Lester
andy at petdance.com
Sun Jan 25 12:56:29 CST 2004
> Hey Andy, how did you do that thing where you shelled out of VIM and ran a
> unix command against your file?
:%!command
% means "all lines in a file"
If you have lines hilighted, the : will turn into
:'<,'>
and you just type the !whatever.
In general, "!" means "shell out" in Unix.
xoa
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