<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I routinely use :'<,'>!sort or some similar external filter program on <br>
lines in the file that I'm working with.<br></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't think of that as a shell escape the way we seem to be using it. Piping to a sub process is not the same as spawning and interactive subshell.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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