On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Venkatraman S wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > is a simple way to edit all files under /etc recursively including > > > directories. This is better. > > > > > > $ find /etc -type f | xargs vi > > > > Also, when i tried it with 5 files(txt), my cmd line got screwed up - as > in, > > the keymaps werent working - up, down arrows were not responding. (is > this > > only me or reproducible?) > > I got the same results which leads me to suspect that the original > tip is faulty. > > Looks like the same thing on gvim works. Also this one works : for i in `find ~/Desktop -name "*.txt"`; do vim $i; done Though am yet to find the reason for it not working with the earlier cmd when opening n files(where n is a number that i am yet to figure out) -V- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
