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, with the xargs command, all of these combinations give some
> problems. The cause may have something to do with my terminal settings.
> Anyway, now I can use `cat list`.
The problem is that you were screwing up vim's stdin. Using the method
I gave you, you are just taking advantage of shell features to provide a
list of filenames to vim on the command line.
If your list looks like this:
file1
file2
file3
Then when you do "vim `cat list`", the shell expands it to this:
$ vim file1 file2 file3
You can also do this:
$ vim `ls -1 *.txt`
or this:
$ vim `find /some/dir -name '*.txt'`
It works with any command that outputs a list of filenames.
--
Bowie
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