Vi/Vim: How to pipe visually selected text to a UNIX command and append output to current file
- by drsnyder
Using Vim, I'm trying to pipe visually selected text to a UNIX command and have the output appended to the end of the current file. For example, say we have a SQL command such as:
SELECT * FROM mytable;
I want to do something like the following:
V # select text
:'<,'!mysql -uuser -ppass mydb
But instead of having the output overwrite the currently selected text, I would like to have the output appended to the end of the file. You probably see where this is going. I'm working on using VIM as a simple SQL editor. That way, I don't have to leave VIM to edit, tweak, test SQL code.
Thanks!
