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Fernando Tricas García
Fernando Tricas García

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So, you want to call a program from vim?

#vim #programs #tips

Sometimes I'm editing a file and I need some part of the results of executing some program:

 [myMachine] > ~/somePath/someProgram someArgument | tee /somePlace
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In How do I run a C program from VIM? they tell us:

:!~/somePath/someProgram someArgument | tee /somePlace
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And it works.

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