Re: Follow external command output

On Jan 10, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Gary Johnson <garyjohn@spocom.com> wrote:

> Another, better way is used by Vim's :grep and :make commands, which
> tee the output to a temporary file while letting stdout and stderr
> go to the display. For example:
>
> :!external --command | tee /tmp/tmpfile
>
> Then you can read the temporary file using system() or readfile() or
> by whatever means is appropriate for your task.

That sounds like it could work for this. I will have to try it. Many thanks!

Ben

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