On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:35:25PM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> 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.
>From a non-guru (I expect there's a more glamorous solution out there.. :)..
You _could_ just copy the the text (simply dragging over it does not work),
then change focus to a terminal window. There, type
wc -w - <carraige return>
then paste the text in (I use gpm, so a middle mouse button click does the
trick).
Hit the return once (giving yourself a clean return for wc to read), then
ctrl-d.
If there is a variable within lyx which represents copied areas then you
should be able to do this within lyx.
M(aybe)TH?
Kenward
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books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the
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that cannot be learned from books. Albert Einstein
