Thanx Yakov for your response, It would help, but I would rather to do it with in working in vim. I'm editing an enormous number of files, and when I change a pattern, I want to change it in the few files that has this pattern, and not having to go through all the files. Is there anyway you could think of?!
Thanx again... Naim -----Original Message----- From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 2:20 PM To: Naim Far Cc: vim@vim.org Subject: Re: argdo and grep On 3/1/07, Naim Far <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering about argdo! Is there anyway to do the following > command > > :grep <pattern> * | argdo :%s/<pattern>/<new_pattern>/g How about this: vim `grep -l 'pattern' *` :argdo :%s/<pattern>/<new_pattern>/g Yakov
