From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17670 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bud Rogers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pipe filter output to file? Date: 09 Oct 1998 11:39:31 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156329 2147 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:25:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03484 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:41:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAF12680; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:11:07 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 09 Oct 1998 11:40:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA29765 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:39:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from twocups.sirinet.net (budr@twocups.sirinet.net [207.3.88.229]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA03415 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:39:41 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from budr@localhost) by twocups.sirinet.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id LAA22210; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 11:39:32 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.37/XEmacs 20.3 - "Vatican City" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17670 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17670 Kai Grossjohann writes: > | grep foo >> /tmp/bar RET > > The above, when typed from the summary buffer, should append all lines > matching foo to the file /tmp/bar. No joy, Kai. I understand that vertical bar to mean M-|, yes? I get 'There is no region now'. If I use | without Meta, I get 'Wrong type argument: stringp nil'. I also tried marking all articles first, but that didn't help either. -- Bud Rogers http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html formerly