Thanks that works better than the way I use to do it! Pretty cleaver! Now I have the best of both worlds whether I'm in the file or whether I'm out of the file, very cool and very simple! Rodney On Tuesday 21 August 2001 09:56 am, you wrote: > Yea but what if he wants to insert the shell output into the middle of an > existing file? > > Here is what I just tried in vim. > Type the following command sequence to insert the current date/time into > > your file: > :r !dt > :r reads in a supposed file but !command is substituted for that file name > > and the output of the command will come into the file. Quite clever, I > shalle say.:) > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rodney Clowdus wrote: > > Let's say we have a file named time and we want to append the output of > > the command date to the file. Quit vi in you are in it and type date >> > > time and the output of date will be appended to the file named time. If > > you want to overwrite the file type only one > but to append type two >>. > > I find it works pretty good for me. My two cents worth. > > Rodney > > > > On Monday 20 August 2001 09:43 pm, you wrote: > > > While we're on the subject of editors.. I've recently started using vim > > > instead of nano, and I'm very pleased with it. I'm trying to find a way > > > to be able to enter a shell command and have its output inserted into > > > the current file. Anyone have any ideas? > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Weaving Beaver rclowdus at kcnet.com "Chop your own firewood and it will warm you twice." "Weave your own cloth and it will reward you twice"
