Use Vim Inside a Unix Pipe Like Sed or AWK

Re:Use Vim Inside a Unix Pipe Like Sed or AWK by andrewstuart2 on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @11:29AM (#11431129)

Yikes, we can shorten that a bit. :-)

    function vimify() {
      (vim - -esbnN -c $@ -c 'w!/dev/fd/3|q!' >/dev/null) 3>&1
    }

    $ echo '<h1>Change Me</h1>' | vimify 'norm vitxiOK I Will'

(Don't forget '-c' if you have more than one transform.)

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Re:Use Vim Inside a Unix Pipe Like Sed or AWK by markmontymark on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @12:22PM (#11431716)

And further shorten that to

echo '<h1>Change Me</h1>' | vimify 'norm vitcOK I Will'

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Re:Use Vim Inside a Unix Pipe Like Sed or AWK by alexdme on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @02:17PM (#11432925)

And further shorten that to

echo '<h1>Change Me</h1>' | vimify 'norm citOK I Will'

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Re:Use Vim Inside a Unix Pipe Like Sed or AWK by pif on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @12:51PM (#11432028)

For robustness sake, you may change $@ with "$*".

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