how to use vim to open every .txt file under a directory (with Bash)

Question

I am trying the following to use a vim to open every txt file under current directory.

find . -name "*.txt" -print | while read aline; do
  read -p "start spellchecking fine: $aline" sth
  vim $aline
done

Running it in bash complains with

Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
Vim: Finished.

Can anyone explain what could possibly goes wrong? Also, I intend to use read -p for prompt before using vim, without no success.

Answer 1

Try:

vim $( find . -name "*.txt" )

To fix your solution, you can (probably) do:

find . -name "*.txt" -print | while read aline; do
      read -p "start spellchecking fine: $aline" sth < /dev/tty
      vim $aline < /dev/tty
done

The problem is that the entire while loop is taking its input from find, and vim inherits that pipe as its stdin. This is one technique for getting vim's input to come from your terminal. (Not all systems support /dev/tty, though.)