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.
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Les Mikesell
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