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

[Paul Fox]

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)"

Where .zot contains the filename you want to edit?  Why do you need
to use "-ce"?

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.

paul
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