Vim: Pipe selected text to shell cmd and receive output on vim info/command line

Question

I want to pipe the selected text to a shell command and receive the one-line output from this shell command on the vim info/command line?

What I\'m really trying to

Answer 1

For multi line version you can do this after selecting the text:

:'<,'>:w !command

You can map it to simple visual mode shortcut like this:

xnoremap c :'<,'>:w !command

Hit leader key + c in visual mode to send the selected text to a stdin of the command. stdout of the command will be printed below vim's statusbar.

Real world example with CoffeeScript:

https://github.com/epeli/vimconfig/commit/4047839c4e1c294ec7e15682f68563a0dbf0ee6d