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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting use vimdiff inside while read Post 302558011 by laopi on Thursday 22nd of September 2011 01:34:16 PM
Old 09-22-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
Try this:

Code:
while IFS= read -r; do
  diff src/"$REPLY" dest/"$REPLY" || ( 
    exec 0< /dev/tty
    vimdiff src/"$REPLY" dest/"$REPLY" 
    )
done < infile

works like a charm
 

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MEMMOVE(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							MEMMOVE(3)

NAME
memmove - copy memory area SYNOPSIS
#include <string.h> void *memmove(void *dest, const void *src, size_t n); DESCRIPTION
The memmove() function copies n bytes from memory area src to memory area dest. The memory areas may overlap: copying takes place as though the bytes in src are first copied into a temporary array that does not overlap src or dest, and the bytes are then copied from the temporary array to dest. RETURN VALUE
The memmove() function returns a pointer to dest. CONFORMING TO
SVr4, 4.3BSD, C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001. SEE ALSO
bcopy(3), memccpy(3), memcpy(3), strcpy(3), strncpy(3), wmemmove(3) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
1993-04-10 MEMMOVE(3)
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