Steve Hall wrote:
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 13:01 +0300, Nikolaos A. Patsopoulos wrote:
1. I want to edit multiple files from command line so I created a
vim script with all the commands (>20). I use a batch file in WinXP:
|@echo off
vim -s script file.txt
exit
however I need to run this script on multiple files. In vim's help
there is this code for use in bash(?) shell
||for file in *.txt; do|
| vim -e -s $file < change.vim|
| lpr -r tempfile|
|done
however it doesn't seem to work under Cygwin.
To do an operation on multiple files in a WinXP DOS batch:
for %%A in (*.txt) do [command]
Chain multiple commands after the "do" statement with " & ":
for %%A in (*.txt) do vim -e -s change.vim "%%A" & copy "%%A" lpt1
or call a separate batch that takes %1 as the argument:
for %%A in (*.txt) do call MyEdit.bat "%%A"
where MyEdit.bat is:
@echo OFF
echo File %1...
vim -e -s change.vim "%1"
copy "%1" lpt1
Note that I usually sprinkle double quotes liberally to avoid issues
with spaces in paths.
That works great!!! Thanks!
Nikos
