On Thursday, October 25, 2012 9:37:33 AM UTC-7, Michael Young wrote: > Hello! > I am attempting to use vim in a shell script to read in a file, edit it, > and write it out to a new file. When I manually execute the individual vim > commands it seems to work properly but when I put the commands in a script > file and try to use that, the commands don't seem to work. My shell script > generates a recursive file directory listing. I then want to use vim to edit > the listing to replace any spaces in each file path with \space. I am > including the shell below. HELP! > Thanks! > Michael > > #!/bin/sh > > # Generate a recursive list of full pathnames for all filenames that do not > # begin with a "." > find "$1" -type f -and \! -name ".*" > filelist1 > > # Generate the input script for the vim editor > # Go through the "find" listing and replace every " " with "\ " > cat << EOF > vimscript > :%s/ /\\ /g > :wq! md5shell > EOF > > # Execute vim with the generated input script > vim -s vimscript filelist1
Ahhh ... I see where I went wrong. Thank you for your response. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
