[clue-tech] question on commands

[Dave Brown]

find . -name application.properties | xargs vi

use ":n" to get to the next file for multiple results from vi


Jed S. Baer wrote:

>On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:30:18 -0700
>Jeff Cann wrote:
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>>When I want to find a file and then immediately vi it it:
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>>$ find . -name application.properties
>>./WEB-INF/classes/application.properties
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>>$ vi ./WEB-INF/classes/application.properties
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>>Is there a way to do this in a single command ?
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>$ find -name filename -exec vi {} \;
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