[vim/vim] vim does not handle STDIN set to /dev/null (#982)
Aaron Peschel
As described in this StackOverflow question:
http://superuser.com/questions/336016/invoking-vi-through-find-xargs-breaks-my-terminal-why
This is a common case when piping find to xargs with vim as the command, eg
find . -type f | xargs vim
Running this chain breaks the tty interaction in vim, and breaks the shell tty upon exit from vim.
A workaround is to run stty sane upon exit from vim, but the tty still has issues while using vim. One annoying example is the backspace button not actually deleting, but inserting a backspace character.
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Aaron Peschel
I have also discovered the -o flag will reopen STDIN with xargs, which also fixes the issue.
sebma
I have also discovered the
-oflag will reopen STDIN with xargs, which also fixes the issue.
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -o -0 vim
@apeschel Hi xargs -o is not a GNU xargs option but a BSD xargs option.
Any workaround for Linux ?
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Gary Johnson
> I have also discovered the -o flag will reopen STDIN with xargs, which also
> fixes the issue.
>
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -o -0 vim
>
> @apeschel Hi xargs -o is not a GNU xargs option but a BSD xargs option.
> Any workaround for Linux ?
find -type f | parallel --tty -X vim
Ubuntu has a package for parallel. You can also find it here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
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Gary
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sebma
@vim-ml I just found this command thanks to james-mcguigan's answer on superuser :
find ..... | xargs sh -c 'vim </dev/tty "$@"' whatever
With that command you don't need to install parallel on the machine anymore 😄
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Christian Brabandt
@apeschel Hi xargs -o is not a GNU xargs option but a BSD xargs option.
FWIW: This has been added to GNU xargs as of https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=40cd25147 (2017)
So any recent linux distribution should have it.
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sebma
@apeschel Hi xargs -o is not a GNU xargs option but a BSD xargs option.
FWIW: This has been added to GNU xargs as of https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=40cd25147 (2017)
So any recent linux distribution should have it.
My findutils package is my Linux distrib is from 2016.
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Tony Mechelynck
2016? Four years ago? Don't you think it might perhaps be time to think, just think, of getting ready for, I don't know, an upgrade?
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Christian Brabandt
well Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is still maintained until around 2022 and I remember having to work with an older Cent OS release that was still available.
Anyhow, I am currently tending to close this issue, as this thread has shown various ways to prevent or work around closing of stdin.
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sebma
@chrisbra Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has findutils version 4.6.0+git+20160126-2
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Christian Brabandt
Closed #982.
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