This extension filters selected text through an external shell command inplace or into temp file. It brings the power of Unix commands such as sort and uniq into your VS Code editor.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yhirose.FilterText

• Select text that you want to filter.
• Press Ctrl+K Ctrl+F (⌘K ⌘F on macOS).
  • Alternatively, press F1 and run the command named Filter Text Inplace.
• Type shell command like sort -r and press enter.
• It replaces the selected text with the text from stdout of the command.

• If you didn't select anything, it simply inserts the result text at the current cursor position.
• If you selected Filter Text command it opens temp editor with the result.

It is possible to map specific commands to key bindings. Example usage in keybindings.json:

{
    "key": "shift+alt+l",
    "command": "extension.filterTextInplace",
    "args": { "cmd": "sort" }
}

Commands can be predefined in the settings.json as follows:

"filterText.commandList": [
    {
        "name": "Sort unique",
        "description": "Sorts and find the unique entries",
        "command": "sort | uniq"
    },
    {
        "name": "Columnize CSV",
        "description": "Columnize comma separated values",
        "command": "column -s \",\" -t"
    },
    {
        "name": "XML lint",
        "description": "Run the command through xmllint",
        "command": "xmllint --format -"
    }
]

• 07/24/2019: v0.0.15 - Predefined commands via settings.json. Add macOS keybinding to fix Delete All Right
• 03/31/2019: v0.0.14 - Fix used document filter flag when false
• 03/16/2019: v0.0.13 - Implemented passing in the command as an argument
• 03/14/2019: v0.0.12 - Improvement: Add option to always use a file's dir as current working
• 08/30/2018: v0.0.11 - Better working directry handling.
• 07/28/2018: v0.0.10 - Better error reporting. In case command exited with failure status, and leave only error messages without stdout, don't change text selection but pop an error message instead. When filter on empty document (zero bytes), need to close stdin to avoid child process reading stdin never terminate (dangling).
• 07/22/2018: v0.0.9 - Added support and settings for using bash's commands or scripts
• 01/25/2018: v0.0.8 - Set current working directory for the command to match the opened directory
• 01/14/2018: v0.0.7 - Set current working directory for the command to match the opened directory
• 12/25/2017: v0.0.6 - Pipe support
• 07/20/2017: v0.0.5 - Make temp buffer a vscode tmp doc instead of system tmp file
• 07/19/2017: v0.0.4 - Allow filter buffer if no selection
• 04/01/2017: v0.0.3 - Added ability to feed result into temp file
• 11/24/2015: v0.0.2 - Changed the keybindg from Ctrl+Shift+F to Ctrl+K Ctrl+F.
• 11/23/2015: v0.0.1 - Initial release.

MIT