Dr Beco wrote: > I can't seem to find the correct combination of quotes to run this command: > > $vi +"r ! find . -name 'error*' -printf '%f\n'" themain.c > > Is there a way to achieve this (using bash)? The problem you are hitting is that vim is expanding the % itself and isn't passing it to bash nor on to find. It isn't related to quoting. It is related to vi's percent expansion. Use something other than percent to avoid the problem. In vi the '%' is replaced by the current filename. That is traditional vi behavior. For 'find' you can use the default -print case by not specifying anything. vim +"r ! find . -name 'error*'" themain.c Bob
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