On Thursday, November 03, 2011 14:11:28 Weissman, Eric (GE Energy 
Services) wrote:

> Can vim be used as a command on a shell command line?   I
> would like to use it to search a list of files and substitute
> a new string for a pattern it finds, and then write the
> resulting file to a new filename for each file in the
> original list.

is there a reason you want to use vim for this?  i would think
sed is better suited for what you describe

sc

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