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05-11-2008

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Opening multiple documents at once

I'm trying this:

Code:

$ for n in `ls` ;  do xterm -e vim $n  & ; done
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
$

I want to edit my files all at once, not one at a time. How can I do that?

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