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Eshell redirection

Posted on October 21st, 2007 by Sacha Chua

Mike Mattie has this awesome Emacs tip for
Eshell: redirecting to buffers and Lisp symbols!

To overwrite buffer “foo”:

ls > #<buffer foo>

To append to buffer “foo”:

ls >> #<buffer foo>

To insert at point in buffer “foo”:

ls >>> #<buffer foo>

To redirect to a Lisp symbol:

ls >#'some-variable

I had no idea Emacs could do that. Cool!

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Thanks to David Ongaro for catching that!

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Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/4415
  • David Ongaro

    Nice. But probably the main points got lost in the various (?) migrations of your block. It should probably read like this:

    To overwrite buffer “foo”:
    ls > #

    To append to buffer “foo”:
    ls >> #

    To insert at point in buffer “foo”:
    ls >>> #

    • http://sachachua.com Sacha Chua

      Thanks for catching that! =)

  • David Ongaro

    I see, I have to escape the > and < myself X-)

    To overwrite buffer “foo”:
    ls > #<buffer foo>

    To append to buffer “foo”:
    ls >> #<buffer foo>

    To insert at point in buffer “foo”:
    ls >>> #<buffer foo>

  • http://gravatar.com/palacechan palacechan

    Why does something like this generate a redirection error though?

    for i in 13 288 3 {echo “$i ” | wc -c } > #

    Invalid redirection target: (#)
    Invalid redirection target: (#)
    Invalid redirection target: (#)

    • http://sachachua.com Sacha Chua

      Did you specify the buffer, like this? #<buffer whatever>

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