Need help writing a bash script

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January 11th, 2008, 01:20 PM

Ziptnf

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Need help writing a bash script

Suppose I had a reference text file where each line was a path to a file. I need to be able to edit these files one at a time.

I have sort of an idea on how to do it, but not much code. Can anyone help me?

Code:

#!/bin/bash
read -p <one file at a time> LIMIT

for ((N=1; N<$LIMIT+1; N++)); do

vi ${N}

done

January 11th, 2008, 01:27 PM

Matt1776

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Ziptnf

Code:

#!/bin/bash
read -p <one file at a time> LIMIT

for ((N=1; N<$LIMIT+1; N++)); do

vi ${N}

done

in vi you can edit files like this by default. just cat the reference file and pipe it through xargs vi:

Code:

cat <file_with_paths> | xargs vi

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January 11th, 2008, 01:43 PM

Ziptnf

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt1776

in vi you can edit files like this by default. just cat the reference file and pipe it through xargs vi:

Code:

cat <file_with_paths> | xargs vi

This is almost exactly what I'm looking for.

The problem is, once I'm done editing a file, and I save it (using x in the vi command), it goes back to the terminal, and the spacing is all screwed up. How do I move to the next file?

EDIT: I went to the manual for VI and found it. The command is :n

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Matt1776 agrees: You got it man. ;0)

Last edited by Ziptnf : January 11th, 2008 at 01:55 PM.

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