Re: Why doesn't this do what I expect?

[Chris Green]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 03:50:23PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> chris wrote:
>  > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 08:58:14PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>  > > vile `cat ^Xe .zot` where .zot contains .bashrc and vile opens .bashrc.
>  > > 
>  > > ^X = ctrl-V+ctrl-X
>  > > 
>  > Sadly this won't help me as I'm trying to run this from a panel
>  > launcher button in [x]ubuntu, thus I can't use any bash, all I can
>  > have is a plain text command line.
> 
> Why can't you just do:
>     bash -c "vile $(cat .zot)"
> 
That's exactly what I did try first time around but it didn't work.

> Where .zot contains the filename you want to edit?  Why do you need
> to use "-ce"?
> 
I guess bash -c "vile $(cat .zot)" might work.


> Okay, I see you said "plain text command line".  In that case, I
> suggest you create a tiny script that does what you need, and call
> that from the launcher config.
> 
... and that's exactly what I have done which works.  I was just
hoping I might be able to get rid of the (admittedly pretty trivial)
script.

-- 
Chris Green