From: Jason Price <gt5076c@cad.gatech.edu>
To: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: scripting problem: vi and multiple arguments
Date: 04 Nov 1998 15:25:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kihfwfi4sx.fsf@gypsy.cad.gatech.edu> (raw)
I'm writing a front end to RCS. (very very small) to deal with people
being forgetful about removing file locks.
I want to parse the command line to the script like this:
rvi file1 file2...
And then I want to call vi like this:
vi file1 file2
however, as I loop through the arguments to rvi, unlocking as needed, yadda
yadda, I build a variable called $EDFILES
then I call
vi $EDFILES
however, zsh is sending all of $EDFILES to vi as one string to argv[1]. I
want each entry in $EDFILES to be a seperate entry into argv.
How can I do this?
Should I build $EDFILES differently?
I could do:
for i in $EDFILES; do
vi $i
done
but that would be different from how vi works with multiple files, and I
want this to be as seamless as possible....
RTFM's welcome with a pointer to the right FM.
Thanks for any help;
Jason
--
"Where will I go?" "Somewhere where they know nothing about computing...
Where they wouldn't know a RAM chip from a potato chip!"
"But I don't want to visit Microsoft!" --the PFY and the BOFH
Jason Price jprice@gatech.edu Theta Xi, Beta Alpha 449
next reply other threads:[~1998-11-04 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-11-04 20:25 Jason Price [this message]
1998-11-04 20:43 ` Michael Barnes
1998-11-04 21:08 ` Jason Price
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