Can I pipe a text region to a shell command?

[Jan Ulrich Hasecke]

Hi!

Is it possible to pipe a text region to a shell command like wc?

I need to know how many chars a paragraph uses, so I would like to
mark it and then pipe the text to wc.

Ciao!
juh

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