[WFKY9G]

Has anyone created a script that will issue vi commands on a file? For example, I've written a script that redirects the output from a command to a log file, I now need to open this log file and edit with vi; add some explainations about what the log file says before returning it back to the screen.

[codejockey]

I suspect you do not want to use vi for this purpose (and I'm not sure you can, even if you wanted to). Instead, consider using ed (precursor to vi, and still available from within vi). The ed command allows you to edit a file in place; you can use a "here document" within a shell script to perform the editing, which automates the process.

Hope this helps.