On 10/18/11 06:50, Elias Diem wrote:
Without giving the '-' argument to 'less'. Why doesn't this work
with vim?

Because Vim can take piped commands:

[2]tim@bigbox:~/tmp$ seq 10 > test.txt
[3]tim@bigbox:~/tmp$ (echo ':5s/$/five'; echo ":wq") | vi test.txt
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
[4]tim@bigbox:~/tmp$ cat test.txt
1
2
3
4
5five
6
7
8
9
10



-tim



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