On 5/18/2011 1:26 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 12:02 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>
>> Right. I was referring to the shell shortcut "$(< filename)". Simple -
>> Useful - and probably forgotten by the time I need it again.
> That's the same thing I meant. It is $(command) which is the same
On 5/18/2011 12:02 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 12:58 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On 5/18/2011 11:33 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>>> On 5/18/2011 11:34 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote:
Note that there's also a shortcut for cat (without launching a subprocess):
$ vim $(< listfi
On 5/18/2011 12:58 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 11:33 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> On 5/18/2011 11:34 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote:
>>> Note that there's also a shortcut for cat (without launching a subprocess):
>>>
>>>$ vim $(< listfile)
>> That's one of those occasionally-useful tidbi
On 5/18/2011 11:33 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 11:34 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote:
>>
>> Note that there's also a shortcut for cat (without launching a subprocess):
>>
>>$ vim $(< listfile)
>
> That's one of those occasionally-useful tidbits that I will have
> completely forgotten ab
On 5/18/2011 11:34 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote:
>
> Note that there's also a shortcut for cat (without launching a subprocess):
>
> $ vim $(< listfile)
That's one of those occasionally-useful tidbits that I will have
completely forgotten about by the time I need to use it again! :-)
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--On Wednesday, May 18, 2011 05:15:54 PM +0200 Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
wrote:
> what, so no-one is going to offer a better solution with emacs?
Never mind the emacs vs vi flamewars. (Of which I use both fluently.)
Real Sysadmins Use ed(1).
;)
Of course, trying to use ed with a list of files is j
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 16:06:47 Bowie Bailey wrote:
> > or, if you need recursive:
> > $ eval vim $(find /some/dir -type f -printf '"%p" ')
> >
> > (shell quotes expansions automatically, but you can still ensure output
> > from find is appropriately quoted manually)
>
> Interesting. I'm not
In article <4dd3e087.5060...@buc.com>,
Bowie Bailey wrote:
> On 5/18/2011 10:42 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote:
> > How about just:
> >
> > $ vim *.txt
> >
> > or, if you need recursive:
> >
> > $ eval vim $(find /some/dir -type f -printf '"%p" ')
> >
> > (shell quotes expansions automatically, b
On 5/18/2011 11:15 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>> On 05/17/2011 09:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>>> There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I
>>> stumble on weird results.
>> [...]
> what, so no-one is going to offer a better solution with emacs?
> I'm sure the ensuin
> On 05/17/2011 09:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I
>> stumble on weird results.
>
> [...]
what, so no-one is going to offer a better solution with emacs?
I'm sure the ensuing debate could be fruitful and provide a refreshing
cha
On 05/18/2011 08:06 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 09:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I
>> stumble on weird results.
> [...]
>
> The easy way for me is 'avoid the shell - use Perl instead':
>
> perl -e 'my @files = grep(!
On 5/18/2011 10:42 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 May 2011 15:09:19 Bowie Bailey wrote:
$ vim `ls -1 *.txt`
or this:
$ vim `find /some/dir -name '*.txt'`
It works with any command that outputs a list of filenames.
>>> Until you have a space in a fi
On 05/17/2011 09:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I
> stumble on weird results.
[...]
The easy way for me is 'avoid the shell - use Perl instead':
perl -e 'my @files = grep(!/^\s*$/,); chomp @files;
system("vim",@files);' exampl
On Wednesday 18 May 2011 15:09:19 Bowie Bailey wrote:
> >> $ vim `ls -1 *.txt`
> >>
> >> or this:
> >>
> >> $ vim `find /some/dir -name '*.txt'`
> >>
> >> It works with any command that outputs a list of filenames.
> >
> > Until you have a space in a filename.
>
> True. But unless vim has a n
On 5/18/2011 10:26 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> On 18.5.2011 16.54, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> You can also do this:
>>
>> $ vim `ls -1 *.txt`
> That one can be accomplished in a simpler way:
>
> vim *.txt
Yea, I thought about that after I typed it, but I left it in as an
example of the general meth
On 18.5.2011 16.54, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> You can also do this:
>
> $ vim `ls -1 *.txt`
That one can be accomplished in a simpler way:
vim *.txt
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On 5/18/2011 9:54 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: centos-boun...@centos.org
>> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bowie Bailey
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 9:55
>> You can also do this:
>>
>> $ vim `ls -1 *.txt`
>>
>> or this:
>>
>> $ vim `find /some
> -Original Message-
> From: centos-boun...@centos.org
> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bowie Bailey
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 9:55
> To: centos@centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim
>
> On 5/18/2011 12:50 AM, J
On 5/18/2011 12:50 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> On 17.5.2011 19.36, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> Try this:
>>
>> vim `cat list`
> Thanks, this really works! I tried it with all my combinations:
>
> OS X workstation by itself
> OS X workstation -> ssh -> CentOS 4
> OS X workstation -> ssh -> CentOS 5
>
> BTW,
On 17.5.2011 19.36, Bowie Bailey wrote:
> Try this:
>
> vim `cat list`
Thanks, this really works! I tried it with all my combinations:
OS X workstation by itself
OS X workstation -> ssh -> CentOS 4
OS X workstation -> ssh -> CentOS 5
BTW, with the xargs command, all of these combinations give so
In article <4dd2a021.4080...@greenspot.fi>,
Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I
> stumble on weird results.
>
> With my filelist, I try to do
>
> cat list | xargs vim
>
> ...to edit the files listed in the file "list". Here's what
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On 5/17/2011 12:19 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I
> stumble on weird results.
>
> With my filelist, I try to do
>
> cat list | xargs vim
>
> ...to edit the files listed in the
--On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 07:19:45 PM +0300 Jussi Hirvi
wrote:
> [root@lasso2 tempdir]# cat list | xargs vim
> 3 files to edit
> Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
>
> Ok, so far, so good. And after this, the file a opens, as expected.
> However, the contents show as all uppercase. And
On 5/17/2011 12:19 PM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I
> stumble on weird results.
>
> With my filelist, I try to do
>
> cat list | xargs vim
Try this:
vim `cat list`
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There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I
stumble on weird results.
With my filelist, I try to do
cat list | xargs vim
...to edit the files listed in the file "list". Here's what happens:
[root@lasso2 tempdir]# ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May
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