On Thu, 25 May 2006, Mike Blonder might have said: > Hi. > > I cannot find a good example in the documentation that would help me use > VIM to accomplish what I need to do: > > I need to add 6 lines to each of thousands of files. The location for > the lines to be added is the same and definable in a command. Anybody > have any ideas as to a straightforward way to get this done? I've tried > copying the lines to a register and then inserting the register text > into an argdo command, but I cannot finish writing the command before > VIM starts inserting the text. Also, I noted that VIM will not insert > beyond the end of the first line. > > Thanks for any ideas on this. > > Mike > > >
echo "line1" >> tempfile echo "line2" >> tempfile echo "line3" >> tempfile $ cd /location/of/files $ find . -type f -print | while read file do cat tempfile >> $file done
