Passing Emacs variables to minibuffer shell commands

Question

I can run a shell command quickly by hitting M-!. One thing I\'d like to do is perform shell quick operations on the current file. An example would be checking th

Answer 1

I did roll my own elisp function, and it looks like this:

(defun execute-shell-command-on-buffer (shell-command-text)
    (interactive "MShell command:")
    (shell-command (format shell-command-text (shell-quote-argument buffer-file-name)))
    )

https://gist.github.com/2367513

I bound it to M-", so now my example can be completed with:

M-"p4 edit %sRET

I won't accept this as the answer, because I did ask for solutions that don't require a function.