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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
> >
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