Re: Piping output to a buffer

[Barry Margolin]

In article <877igtho8a.fsf@celephais.home.net>,
 cothrige <cothrige@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have noticed that in vim one can invoke an external command and pipe
> the output into the current buffer via the `!!` or `:r!` commands.
> While I have not made a habit of really using this command in vim, as I
> have also not made a habit of using vim, I did realize that this could
> be a really useful capability.  So, how might one do this in emacs?

C-u M-!

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