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Re: Piped insert-file?


From: ginak
Subject: Re: Piped insert-file?
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 18:10:47 +0000 (UTC)
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In <hxQA9.12$Xq1.1204@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net> Barry Margolin 
<barmar@genuity.net> writes:

>In article <ar0k64$q5o$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>ginak  <gina02122000@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>Is there a way (without creating a temporary file) to insert into a
>>buffer the results of running a file's contents through a Unix pipe?

>C-u M-! and C-u M-| will execute commands and insert the output in the
>current buffer.

Thanks.  That's great to know.

When I tried C-u M-! with "grep foo foo_file", I got the desired text
inserted in the buffer, but preceded by the lines:

stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device
stty: standard input: Inappropriate ioctl for device

I don't know how to interpret these lines.

g


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