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From: scottp@.bnr.ca (Scott Pace)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: vi problem
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Date: 27 Feb 90 18:58:11 GMT
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The problem:
I want to pass the output of the :f command (which displays filename
and line # among other things) as an argument (or input) to a shell
script or program. For example, say I had a file called test which
contained the following:

echo "$1"

I want to be able to run the test script with the output from the :f
command as the argument $1 so that it might echo something like

""foo" [Not edited] [Modified] line 23 of 178 --12%--"

The entire purpose of this is so that I can pass down the current line
number and file name to a script.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks.
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