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From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: Re: Piping to vi
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Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 17:47:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: hropus.669
Posted: Wed Sep 10 17:47:08 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Sep-86 10:54:12 EDT
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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> How many times have you wanted to pipe to vi, but were loath to modify
> the source? Well, I have been using the following shell function for
> some time, and one of my colleagues suggested that the net might be
> interested in it. This can be converted to an alias for the csh; it
> will work as is in the System V.2 Bourne shell, and the Korn shell:
> 
> pvi()
> {
> 	cat > pipe 2>&1 & view $* pipe < /dev/tty
> }
> 
 ...
> 	This is as simple to use as: ls -l | pvi

How about in vi entering:

		:r !ls -l

This runs ls -l and puts the output in the current file.  It obviously
works for any command that writes to stdout...
-- 
Jim Webb             "Out of phase--get help"          ...!ihnp4!hropus!jrw