[Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands which accept filename as parameter

[Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands which accept filename as parameter

[Pavel Tsekov]

Hey, there! :)

I have noticed the following behaviour of VIM and thought it is worth
reporting it to the list. Trying to execute an external command from
vim and passing it a file name parameter from my home directory using
the tilde character fails:

sha1sum: ~/gdbtk.ini: No such file or directory

shell returned 1

Hit ENTER or type command to continue

The output above is generated from the following vim command:
":!sha1sum.exe ~/gdbtk.ini". The same command on linux yields the
right result.

Actually I'll investigate/debug this further this night (maybe) but if
someone knows more on this issue, feel free to speak :)


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Re: [Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands which accept filename as parameter

[Luke Bakken]

/bin/sh on Cygwin doesn't understand the ~ character.  It's a rather
limited shell.

try this:

:set shell=/bin/bash

Luke

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

> Hey, there! :)
>
> I have noticed the following behaviour of VIM and thought it is worth
> reporting it to the list. Trying to execute an external command from
> vim and passing it a file name parameter from my home directory using
> the tilde character fails:
>
> sha1sum: ~/gdbtk.ini: No such file or directory
>
> shell returned 1
>
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue
>
> The output above is generated from the following vim command:
> ":!sha1sum.exe ~/gdbtk.ini". The same command on linux yields the
> right result.
>
> Actually I'll investigate/debug this further this night (maybe) but if
> someone knows more on this issue, feel free to speak :)
>
>
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Re[2]: [Possible BUG] VIM and execution of external commands which accept filename as parameter

[Pavel Tsekov]

Thanks, Luke!

This explains it all! I'm sorry for the false alarm :(

Monday, March 04, 2002, 5:19:29 PM, you wrote:

LB> /bin/sh on Cygwin doesn't understand the ~ character.  It's a rather
LB> limited shell.

LB> try this:

LB> :set shell=/bin/bash

LB> Luke

LB> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Pavel Tsekov wrote:

>> Hey, there! :)
>>
>> I have noticed the following behaviour of VIM and thought it is worth
>> reporting it to the list. Trying to execute an external command from
>> vim and passing it a file name parameter from my home directory using
>> the tilde character fails:
>>
>> sha1sum: ~/gdbtk.ini: No such file or directory
>>
>> shell returned 1
>>
>> Hit ENTER or type command to continue


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