Ghetto running of commands in separate shells from Vim

A. How to run it.md

In one terminal, run out_pipe.

From vim:

:call PipeCommand("echo " . expand("%"))

See the current file name being printed out by out_pipe.

Win.

out_pipe

#! /bin/bash

tail -F ~/tmp/commands | while read data; do
  [ -z "$data" ] && continue
  clear
  echo $data
  sh -c "${data}"
done 

vimrc

function! PipeCommand(cmd)
  let cwd = fnamemodify('.', ':p')
  let full_cmd = "cd " . cwd . " && " . a:cmd
  exe "silent !echo \"" . full_cmd . "\" > ~/tmp/commands"
  exe "silent !echo > ~/tmp/commands"
  exe "redraw!"
endfunction