On Dec 3, 7:54 pm, Andy Wokula <[email protected]> wrote:
> James Kanze schrieb:
> > I've recently started working on a Windows platform, and I'm
> > having some problems that, IIRC, worked correctly (i.e. did
> > what I expected) on Unix platforms. In particular:
> > :args ! egrep -l 'some string' *.{h,cpp}
> > I expect this to set the file list to all of the files
> > containing "some string" (for later use with argdo, for
> > example); I use this a lot when "modernizing" C++ sources.
> > Under Windows, I end up with "new file !" or something along
> > those lines.
> > I've installed CygWin, and set vim up so it uses bash as its
> > shell.
> > What do I have to do to get this to work? I need it fairly
> > badly, since I have to deal with a large body of existing code,
> > in which I often have to make global changes.
> I think you want backtick expansion:
> :args `egrep -l 'some string' *.{h,cpp}`
>
> :h `-expansion
Yep. That seems to work. I remembered doing this under Unix;
apparently, I misremembered the syntax I'd used. It's working
fine now, thanks.
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