On 05/18/2011 08:06 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> On 05/17/2011 09:19 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
>> There are some googlable ways to feed a list of filenames to vim, but I
>> stumble on weird results.
> [...]
>
> The easy way for me is 'avoid the shell - use Perl instead':
>
> perl -e 'my @files = grep(!/^\s*$/,<ARGV>); chomp @files;
> system("vim",@files);' example_list.txt
>
Quick change to handle filenames that start with '-' as well:
perl -e 'my @files = grep(!/^\s*$/,<ARGV>); chomp @files;
system("vim","--",@files);' example_list.txt
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Benjamin Franz
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