[clue-tech] question on commands

[Ski Dawg]

On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 18:39 -0700, David Anselmi wrote:
> That seems unlikely.  Hmmm.
> 
> When find runs vi it runs it with one file name as an argument.  Look at 
> ps -f and you'll see.  So it isn't really possible for vim to guess what 
> the other files will be.  When the first vim exits, find starts up the 
> next, again with one file.

You are right, I was remembering incorrectly. The command that I used to
launch everything into one vi(m)/gvim session was
vi `find . -name "*.txt"` using the backticks method.

Sorry about the confusion.
--
Doug

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