In article <4DD3E087.5060305@xxxxxxx>,
Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey@xxxxxxx> 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, but you can still ensure output from
> > find is appropriately quoted manually)
>
> Interesting. I'm not sure what the eval is doing, but it works even
> with spaces in the filenames. Unfortunately, it won't work with the
> OP's original scenario (a file with a list of filenames to edit).
After a bit of experimentation, I found that this would work:
$ eval vim $(sed 's/.*/"&"/' file)
If this became a frequent requirement, perhaps an alias or function
could be created.
Cheers
Tony
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