Executing text as a shell command

[Dave Tapley]

Hi there,

No luck with Google for this one, not even sure if it is a feature but
I've come across the need for it a few times:

I would like to be able to take a line (or buffer) in Vim and send it
to the shell in the fashion that :! can be used to execute shell
commands.

So for example if I have a readme.txt with the line:
sudo apt-get install lots of packages

I execute that line without resorting to yank / pasting.

Cheers,
Dave

[Tony Mechelynck]

See ":help filter".

(untested)
On Unix:
(single line)
:.!bash
:undo
(Visual: Vim inserts '<,'> when you hit the colon key)
:'<,'>!bash
:undo
(whole buffer)
:%!bash
:undo

On Windows, use cmd instead of bash

The line(s) will be replaced by the output of the external command, hence the
undo...

However, it's sometimes simpler to yank & paste, since then you don't have to
undo:

yank with
yy
paste on the Vim command-line:
:!<Ctrl-R>"<BS><Enter>

where <Ctrl-R> means "hit Ctrl-R" etc.
The <BS> (optional) is there to remove the Ctrl-M representing the end-of-line.

Or: yank in Vim, to the clipboard

"+yy
or (10 lines)
"+10yy
or (in linewise-visual)
"+y

then paste in a separate shell, using whatever (such as "Edit -> Paste")
applies to the terminal where the shell is running.

Best regards,
Tony.
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[Kazuo Teramoto]

On 1/13/08, Tony Mechelynck <antoine.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> See ":help filter".
>
> (untested)
> On Unix:
> (single line)
> :.!bash
> :undo
> (Visual: Vim inserts '<,'> when you hit the colon key)
> :'<,'>!bash
> :undo
> (whole buffer)
> :%!bash
> :undo
>
> On Windows, use cmd instead of bash
>
> The line(s) will be replaced by the output of the external command, hence the
> undo...

On linux (I don't have other system to test) you can use

:.w !bash
:'<,'>w !bash
:w !bash

if it you don't need the undo.

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[Kazuo Teramoto]

On 1/13/08, Kazuo Teramoto <kaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On linux (I don't have other system to test) you can use
>
> :.w !bash
> :'<,'>w !bash
> :w !bash

the help topic is:
:help :write_c

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[Charles E. Campbell, Jr.]

Dave Tapley wrote:

You could use RunView for this (see
http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#RUNVIEW).

:[range]RunView[!] command (such as sh)
(visual-select)\rv (uses the string in g:runview_filtcmd (default:
"ksh") for the filter-command)

Regards,
Chip Campbell

[Jürgen Krämer]

Hi,

:call system(getline('.'))

jkr

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