Pipeprofen

[pahy-pyoo-proh-fuhn, pahy-peh-proh-fen]; noun

Run a bash shell command on the selected lines.

Execute a bash process that pipes the selected lines as if they were an input file, same as stdin, through a custom bash shell command. The output from the process replaces the selection with stderr and stdout. Works with multiple carets by piping each selection region separately into their own process. Also works with no carets.

General usage instructions
Invoke with ctrlaltshiftx, or by selecting text and right-click the editor to show the context menu. The menu item is called Pipe selected text to bash. When no lines are selected, use the keyboard shortcut to open the bash argument window.

Demo

Features

• Remembers the last command arguments
• Treats output containing either stderr and stdout the same
• Works with multiple carets, 1 caret and no carets
• Bug-free on Linux
• Actively supported - open an issue on github
• Unlicensed, free public domain source

Note: you must have bash in your environment's PATH.

Being able to run anything in the editor and change the buffer text was heavily inspired by emacs's lisp expressions (eval-last-sexp), (eval-defun) and (eval-expression). This plugin is intended to be a drop-in replacement for the antiquated Shell Process plugin.

usage

default keymap: ctrlaltshiftx

1. highlight lots of text
   1. note: works for multiple carets, too (latest jetbrains)
2. press keyboard shortcut
3. enter the command that bash runs

internals

for each selection block s
  create temp file f from s characters
  show prompt to get args
  pipe f as stdin to `bash -c ${args}`
  replace s with (stdout + stderr)
remove selection

demo

the demo below was created from this screencast.md file

coc

Praise God, St. Benedict and the sqlite coc #usethatword #nationalism 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

todo

1. option toggles keep/replace selected text
2. default no args text to xargs -I{} bash -c '{}'
   1. or create a token to simplify the re-typing of common args
3. environment variables
4. history holding of previous args (and inputs? meh)
5. ingest args from clipboard, like so $(bash -c clipboard)
6. customize bash -c in case bash is not present
7. tokenize editor contents to use tokens as a testing framework
   1. e.g.: read editor contents, parse AST, pipe code to bash args

thanks

Thank you for using my plugin, no bullshit. Help me improve it by loggin' a bug.

Cheers!

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