> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bowie Bailey
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 9:55
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Feed a list of filenames to vim
>
> 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.
Until you have a space in a filename.
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