current file name in vi's colon mode

[Norbert Schellhammer]

hello, here comes, whatever happened to MWC, a user question,
is there an short name for the current file in the vi ?
After writing some lines in a shell script i say in colon mode
:! chmod +x sometimes_a_long_file_name
is there a handy substitution like (# or ! neither of them works)
for the name of the current file ? (an internal voice says: there is one)
another question: the find command ends with \;
I don't know another commands that ends so funny. It must have something
to do with the -exec or -ok thing and the shell who may not see the ;
and why are the expression primitives like -name -atime soooooooo long.
Norbert

[Udo Munk]

Norbert Schellhammer (q230...@bonsai.fernuni-hagen.de) wrote:
: is there an short name for the current file in the vi ?

: After writing some lines in a shell script i say in colon mode
: :! chmod +x sometimes_a_long_file_name
: is there a handy substitution like (# or ! neither of them works)
: for the name of the current file ? (an internal voice says: there is one)

The special symbol for the current file is %.

: another question: the find command ends with \;

: I don't know another commands that ends so funny. It must have something
: to do with the -exec or -ok thing and the shell who may not see the ;

The command string for -exec and -ok must be followed by ;, that's just
the syntax of the find command. The \ is necessary to stop the shell
interpreting the ;, shell escapes are necessary all the time to protect
character with a special meaning for the shell, not only for find.

: and why are the expression primitives like -name -atime soooooooo long.

Now that you need to ask those who wrote the find command originally.
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