also sprach dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> [2002.01.08.2146 +0100]: > Other people have explained what happened, but not how to get where > you want to be. For vim, at least, > > find . -name Root | xargs vi - > > Tell vim to read data from stdin and commands from stderr. This is > also useful to stick the output of a command into a buffer or to use > vim as a pager. sure, that will read the output of the find command into vi, iff you actually omit the xargs. however, i wanted to open all files returned by the find command, which works, even though vi was complaining... thanks though! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck linux: because a pc is a terrible thing to waste
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