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How to use a pipe to edit a file with vi

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Mar 15, 20266478 views
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Problem

Lets say I have a file called file.txt. In it is a name of a file that I want to edit with vi. I want to do something like this so that I can edit the file: However, that doesn't work. How can it be done? To clarify things: Here are the contents of file.txt: So I want to somehow send the contents o…

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cat file.txt | vi

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Fix for: How to use a pipe to edit a file with vi

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At least for vim (not sure about vi), you can do The '-' tells vim to read from stdin.

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