On 2013-02-16 13:02, Russell Urquhart wrote: > I have a directory of html files, (that are actually xml files, > misnamed extension wise.) I would like to have all those files > loaded, one after another into a single file, is that possible in > Vim?
There are several ways to go about this. One can create the combined file on-disk with something like vim *.html :argdo w! >> combined.xml which will load up each HTML file and then iterate over them, appending them to a file on disk. Alternatively, you can accumulate them in a register, e.g. "z" with vim *.html :let @z='' | argdo %y Z :new "zpdd which will iterate over all your HTML files appending their contents to the "z" register (the uppercase version appends, as noted at ":help quotea"). It then creates a new buffer, pastes the contents of the "z" register, and deletes the blank line under which it was pasted. Note that in both case, you can modify the range to select a subset of the file, so if you just want to write the <body> content, you can do something like :argdo /<body/+1,/<\/body>/-1w! >> combined.xml Hope this gives you some options to work with. -tim -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
