On 05/27/12 08:31, john Culleton wrote:
> Running a file of commands against a single file.
> I can create a file of several hundred commands all of
> the form
> :% s/foo/bar/
> 
> Of course foo and bar are different for each such command. Now
> I want to run all of those commands against file mainfile. 
> 
> How do I do this? Or is it easier to use awk?


If the colons are in the command-file, you can just yank them all
into a register (e.g. "a") and then execute the whole thing as a macro:

  :e commands.txt
  :%y a
  :e mainfile.txt
  @a

-tim




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