Re: Is there a way to run a shell script that "calls" VIM from outside, passing parameters to it (without to open yours interface)?

toothpik wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 01:40:52PM -0700, Michel Grassi wrote:
>> Em quinta-feira, 21 de julho de 2016 17:01:41 UTC-3, Tumbler Terrall escreveu:
>>> Sure, make a custom function that takes parameters. Then call it from the shell like so:
>>> vim -c"call MyFunction(myParameter1, myParameter2)"
>>> You'll need to dynamically fill in the parameters, but that should be manageable.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Michel Grassi <michel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to know if someone here can help-me.
>>> I need to store in a variable in the shell prompt the stdout of "vim -c {parameters}".
>>> But to make it works and meet my need, the Vim must be run
>>> externally by the shell (something like "vim -c{input recognized by
>>> vim}"), passing it input parameters and the result of this output,
>>> store in a variable X.
>>>
>>> I tried using the command vim -c 'command vim' but this did not work
>>>
>>> Explaining what I need is:
>>>
>>> 1) The Vim must be "called" by a script.sh and should take
>>> parameters as input to do something.
>>>
>>> 2) This parameters, will be passed to vim in variables (three
>>> variables). The variables are: $A, that contains a file name, $L
>>> that contains the number of a line of this file and $C that contains
>>> column number (the cursor position on the line $L)
>>>
>>> 3) With those data, the vim will use this input shift the cursor to
>>> the line $L at position $C of $A file.
>>>
>>> 4) Once the cursor being in the requested position, the char
>>> contained in the specified position must be copied and assigned to
>>> the variable X shell.
> at the risk of uttering blasphemy on the vim-use list, wouldn't awk be
> better suited to this task than vim?
>
I agree that it sounds like awk would be better.

Nonetheless: if after looking at what awk can do, and it seems that vim
is still the way to go:

* use vim to generate a file script
* use your script and run that file script (using . scriptname so the
variables are in the environment).
* I'm assuming by "kernel variable" you actually mean "environment
variable". If you really mean a kernel variable, such as may be found
occasionally in files such as /proc/sys/kernel/core_uses_pid, this would
be a dangerous approach until you're absolutely certain that things are
working correctly.

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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