Run vim without being there...
Say you have a text file. You need to alter it in some regular way before sending it on somewhere else. Instead of editing by hand, there is a neat option you can use to edit the file with familiar vim commands (instead of awk's lovely syntax), without having to open vim interactively.
The principle is simple: You make a file containing each of the commands you want to run, one per line. They will be the same form as if you typed them in a vim session, starting with ":". Make sure that ":wq" is the last one. Then you run vim with:
The principle is simple: You make a file containing each of the commands you want to run, one per line. They will be the same form as if you typed them in a vim session, starting with ":". Make sure that ":wq" is the last one. Then you run vim with:
vim -s FILEOFCOMMANDS.txt FILETOEDIT.txtExample case. My file to edit is tester.txt, contents being:
64.114.33.23,www.example.comThen I have a
64.114.33.24,www.example.co.uk
64.114.33.25,www.example.co.jp
64.114.33.26,www.example.co.fr
64.114.33.27,www.example.co.cz
commands.txt file containing::%s/^/("
:%s/,/","
:%s/$/"),
:wqFinally I ran it as vim -s commands.txt tester.txt. As a result, cat tester.txt:("64.114.33.23","www.zenoss.com.co.uk"),
("64.114.33.24","www.zenoss.com.co.de"),
("64.114.33.25","www.zenoss.com.co.fr"),
("64.114.33.26","www.zenoss.com.co.cp"),
("64.114.33.27","www.zenoss.com.co.jp"),
You could put something like this in a cron job, making transitions between data manipulation steps quick and easy, without having to mess with the files by hand each time.
posted by by Immortal Curiosity at
12:02 PM
2 Comments:
Very nicely put...now the $64 question is, how do you tell VI not to display any output while running these scripts?
I can redirect output to another terminal, but it still wants to write to stdout.
I tried redirecting stdout to /dev/null, and a few other permutations, always ended up getting "Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal". Not sure how to get around that yet.
I think you could use the script command ( http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/handle_terminal_output.jsp ), and redirect output to another display, then close it in your original script, without the originating shell ever being the wiser.
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