Re: [CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim

In article 4DD3E087.5060305@BUC.com, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com wrote:

On 5/18/2011 10:42 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote:

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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