Is it possible to make Vim do something like a pipe filter?

Question

What I want to achieve is

ls | vim - | xargs /bin/rm  

ls runs and sends the content to vim, which can be edited at will. Finally, when exiting vim, it prints the formatted standard input to the output, so that the pipeline can continue.

Can this be achieved?

Answer 1

vim -c ...
But... I want to ask you why you don't use ed/sed/awk/perl?