command output into buffer

command output into buffer

[G Anna]

Dear All,

How to insert the output of a shell command at point?  For example,
currently if I want to insert the output of the ls command then I
normally run the command in the xterm and cut-paste the output into
the emacs buffer.

But I think there is a way to insert the output into the buffer
automatically.  Can anybody help?

Thank you for your time.

Cheers,
anna


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Re: command output into buffer

[Lee Doolan]

i have this in my .emacs file.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
;;
;;I found this relly useful snippet on USENET (comp.emacs) posted by:
;;
;;    From: Tim Christian <tim@unt.edu>
;;
(defun my-shell-command-on-region nil
  "Replace region with ``shell-command-on-region''.
By default, this will make mark active if it is not and then prompt
you for a shell command to run and replaces region with the results.
This is handy for doing things like getting external program locations
in scripts and running grep and whatnot on a region."
  (interactive)
  (save-excursion
    (if (equal mark-active nil)
        (push-mark nil nil -1))
    (setq string
          (read-from-minibuffer "Shell command on region: " nil nil nil
                                'shell-command-history))
    (shell-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end) string -1)
    ; Get rid of final newline cause I normally did by hand anyway.
    (delete-char -1)))

;;------------------------------------------------------------------------
(defun insert-output-from-shell-command (commandstr)
  "Insert output from a shell command at point"
  (interactive "*sInsert From Command:")
  (shell-command commandstr 1))

(global-set-key "\M-oi" 'insert-output-from-shell-command)
(global-set-key "\M-or" 'my-shell-command-on-region)

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Re: command output into buffer

[Fernando Dobladez]

M-!   Execute a command
C-u M-!   Execute command and insert output in current buffer
M-|   Execute command passing the current region as stdin to the command.
C-u M-|   Execute command passing the current region as stdin to the 
command, and replace the region with the stdout of the command  (filter)

>Dear All,
>
>How to insert the output of a shell command at point?  For example,
>currently if I want to insert the output of the ls command then I
>normally run the command in the xterm and cut-paste the output into
>the emacs buffer.
>
>But I think there is a way to insert the output into the buffer
>automatically.  Can anybody help?
>
>Thank you for your time.
>
>Cheers,
>anna
>
>