On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Roshan Mathews <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Perhaps you should try it and then make a pronouncement! >> > My bad, but I only have access to Cygwin and I tried `xargs ls' ... > anyways this seems interesting, will check at work tomorrow. > This is interesting.
$ find -name "*.h" | xargs nano Received SIGHUP or SIGTERM <doesn't screw up anything, doesn't start> $ find -name "*.h" | xargs emacs <opens emacs with the files, everything ok> $ find -name "*.h" | xargs emacs -nw emacs: standard input is not a tty <doesn't screw up anything, doesn't start> $ find -name "*.h" | xargs gvim 104 files to edit <works, exits, everything ok> $ find -name "*.h" | xargs vi Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal 104 files to edit <exit to find shell has gone to sleep> The issue does seem to be, as Kapil Paranjape pointed out, that vi has it's stdin set to /dev/null which it doesn't like. http://sial.org/howto/shell/ suggests that you can use backticks (instead of xargs) like so: $ vi `find -name "*.h"` Or, just use emacs. Roshan _______________________________________________ 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
