Re: Is it possible to redirect the output of shell command to QuickFix?

On Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:09:17 PM UTC-5, Suresh Govindachar wrote:
> On 7/27/2013 7:27 PM, Dahong Tang wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > The command :%! ls -al redirects the output of the shell command, in this case ls -al, to the current buffer. But instead of the current buffer, I want to redirect the output of shell command to QuickFix. Does anyone know if this is possible? If so, can you please give an example? Thanks!
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> Browsing :help quickfix and using some other info, the following is
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> likely to do what you are seeking to do:
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> :cexpr system('ls -al') | copen
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> --Suresh

Ah, I didn't know the cexpr command. Thank you!

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