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		RMPR on Aug 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Moreutils – Unix tools that nobody thought to writ... > you can then use "%!ls" to replace the contents of the buffer with directory listing and edit the commands you want. I often used :r !ls for that, thanks for the tip + it's shorter

gpanders on Aug 22, 2020 [–]

Note that in general this is not a one-to-one replacement. `%!cmd` sends the current buffer contents to `cmd`’s stdin and replaces the buffer with `cmd`’s output. In the case of ‘ls’ this works since it doesn’t take anything on stdin

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