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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: including filename with vi
Message-ID: <484@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Nov 90 18:33:28 GMT
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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A friend just asked how to include the name of the current file
in vi.  In other words, he wants the current file pathname inserted
into the text for reference purposes.  I couldn't think of how to do it.
I wrote the shell script below as a nasty hack to solve the problem but
it seems there must be a vi'ish way to do it.

----------nasty hack follows--------------
: nvi
# create new file and put filename into it
# call with:
#	nvi filename

# make sure nvi was called with one argument
if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
	echo "usage: nvi filename"
	exit 1
fi

# make sure specified file doesn't exist
if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
	echo "$0: $1 already exists"
	exit 1
fi

# prepend path to filename if it doesn't start with a /
if [ `expr $1 : "\/"` -eq 1 ] ; then
	pn=$1
else
pn=`pwd`/$1
fi

# create the file with a filename line in it
echo File: $pn >$pn
# invoke vi
vi $pn
-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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