18 May
2011
18 May
'11
5:02 p.m.
On 5/18/2011 12:58 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 5/18/2011 11:33 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
On 5/18/2011 11:34 AM, Michael Gliwinski wrote:
Note that there's also a shortcut for cat (without launching a subprocess):
$ vim $(< listfile)
That's one of those occasionally-useful tidbits that I will have completely forgotten about by the time I need to use it again! :-)
Don't think of it as a special case. It is a combination of two generically useful simple operations. Unix, the shell, and vi are all about being able to reuse and combine simple steps instead of special-casing everything.
Right. I was referring to the shell shortcut "$(< filename)". Simple - Useful - and probably forgotten by the time I need it again.
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Bowie