In article <4dd3e087.5060...@buc.com>, Bowie Bailey <bowie_bai...@buc.com> 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 -- Tony Mountifield Work: t...@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: t...@mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
