find . -name "pom.xml" | awk '{print "bad " $1 > "/dev/stderr"}' | vi -
then issuing ls to no avail
iff I issue
find . -name "pom.xml" | awk '{print "bad " $1 > "/dev/stderr"}' 2>
session ; vi -S session
[cut]
I think I'm missing a point somewhere, can you think of anyway to skip
the intermediary session file?
At least OpenBSD's xargs allows you to reopen stdin with
find . -name "pom.xml" | xargs -o vi
This is a fabulous feature, though checking several Linux
installs I have access to, none of their "xargs" offer a "-o"
parameter to reopen stdin. If you happen to be running on
OpenBSD (or perhaps the FreeBSD/NetBSD/Dragonfly offer similar
functionality), this is an elegant solution with no warts.
In a bash shell where you can create dynamic FIFOs as
pseudo-files, you might be able to get away with
vi -S <(find . -name "pom.xml" | sed 's/^/bad /')
(using sed rather than Awk, as I'm not sure I understand the
complications about stdout vs. stderr in your example). This may
come with the wart of an empty buffer (the starting buffer) in
addition to all the "bad"ded buffers. This wart could be worked
around with some ugliness:
vi -S <(find . -name "pom.xml" | sed -e '1s/^/e /' -e
'1!s/^/bad ')
which changes the first session command into "e" rather than "bad".
None of these solutions leave intermediate session-files around.
Just a few ideas...
-tim
