On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 03:50:23PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: > chris wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 08:58:14PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > vile `cat ^Xe .zot` where .zot contains .bashrc and vile opens .bashrc. > > > > > > ^X = ctrl-V+ctrl-X > > > > > Sadly this won't help me as I'm trying to run this from a panel > > launcher button in [x]ubuntu, thus I can't use any bash, all I can > > have is a plain text command line. > > Why can't you just do: > bash -c "vile $(cat .zot)" > That's exactly what I did try first time around but it didn't work.
> Where .zot contains the filename you want to edit? Why do you need > to use "-ce"? > I guess bash -c "vile $(cat .zot)" might work. > Okay, I see you said "plain text command line". In that case, I > suggest you create a tiny script that does what you need, and call > that from the launcher config. > ... and that's exactly what I have done which works. I was just hoping I might be able to get rid of the (admittedly pretty trivial) script. -- Chris Green
