[CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim

[Benjamin Franz]

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*$/,<ARGV>); chomp @files; 
system("vim", at files);'  example_list.txt

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Benjamin Franz