How to pipe the selected content in Emacs’ buffer to external bash script and then print its output? The script can read data from pipe.
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How to pipe the selected content in Emacs’ buffer to external bash script and then print its output? The script can read data from pipe.
Use
shell-command-on-regionwhich is bound to M-|e.g.:
M-|
sort | uniq -cRETWith a prefix argument, the region is replaced by the output of the shell command (which effectively adds all shell commands to Emacs’ editing toolkit; very useful when you know how to do something outside of Emacs, but don’t know an equivalent native function).
C-uM-|
sort | uniq -cRET