On 11/16/12 18:36, Ant wrote:
> this one is something I need help in. Say I have thousands of
> files and I wanted to concatenate them all into one. THis is easy
> to do, I can just do it outside Vim using bash script "cat * >
> allfiles.txt" or something.
>
> But how would you concatenate heaps of files together, separating
> them by its filename or some unique thing
You allude to how you get the source of your filenames ("*" = all
files in the current directory), so to do similarly in Vim, I might
do something like
:enew
:r! /bin/ls " on *nix
:r! dir /b " on Win32
:%sort " optionally sort, as dir/ls may not return sorted
" though you could pass switches to ls/dir to sort
:1d " delete the first blank line
:g/^/-put=repeat('=',50)|+|exec 'read '.getline('.')
" insert a divider of 50 "=" characters,
" move back to the line with the filename,
" read the file named on the given line
This also has the advantage that, if you have the filenames in a
file already, you can just use that, instead of reading the
filenames into the file contents. In theory, the above should also
work with subdirectories too if you need.
-tim
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