Remove quotes from stdout. Pass string as file path

Question

I was trying to create a bookmark file for my configs, and search for them using fzf. I tried both these methods but with no avail.

editconf() { nvim $(cat /home/anupam/scripts/conflist | fzf) }
editconf() { cat /home/anupam/scripts/conflist | fzf | xargs nvim }

The problem that's occurring is it's passing the path say '~/.config/nvim/init.vim' as a string instead of a file path ~/.config/nvim/init.vim.

and nvim thinks that it's the file name instead of file path.

Any way of solving this.

PS I tried to remove the quotes using tr didn't work.

It's likely that the problem isn't whatever you think it is, but the ~ there. Tilde expansion is done by the shell. Neovim might do it when using :e, :tabe, etc., but not when it's passed literally as an argument. Try with /home/anupam instead of ~. — muru
– muru, Commented May 9, 2021 at 6:04
Should be editconf() { nvim ${(f)"$(</home/anupam/scripts/conflist fzf)"}; }. $(...) splits on all $IFS characters while you likely want to split on newline only (or not at all in which case that would be editconf() { nvim "$(< /home/anupam/scripts/conflist fzf)"; }. In any case concatenating a single file doesn't make much sense, cat is redundant here. — Stéphane Chazelas
– Stéphane Chazelas, Commented May 10, 2021 at 6:22
@StéphaneChazelas Thanks for pointing that out I will make those changes. — Anupam Minz
– Anupam Minz, Commented May 11, 2021 at 10:00

Anupam Minz · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-09 10:08:03Z

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The problem was that ~ tilde does not expand in the shell, specifing the full path did the job.

answered May 9, 2021 at 10:08

Anupam Minz

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