Re: OT: xargs & vi
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:59:56PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
| 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.
Yeah, but you didn't omit xargs :-).
| however, i wanted to open all files returned by the find command, which
| works, even though vi was complaining...
|
| thanks though!
You're welcome.
-D
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