On 21/09/2013 02:55 p.m., Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2013-09-21 14:37, Cesar Romani wrote:
>> I'm using vim 7.4.31 on Windows 7.
>> I have a file containing names of other files, say
>> canción 1.txt
>> canción 2.txt
>> ...
>> How can I apply an external command to these files. Let's say I
>> want to move them to another directory, as in
>> move "canción 1.txt" c:\foo\Música\
>> move "canción 2.txt" c:\foo\Música\
>> ...
>> I think I could use something like
>> :w !move<something else> c:\foo\Música\
>> but I don't know what to put on<something else>
>
> I'd transform your file into a batch script, something like
>
> :%s/.*/move "&" c:\\foo\\Música\\
>
> and then run the entire thing through the command processor:
>
> :%w !cmd.exe
>
> which worked for me (modulo any peculiarities of accented characters
> in cmd.exe which I didn't actually test). I regularly do the same on
> Linux:
>
> :%s@.*@mv "&" backup/
> :%!sh
Thanks a lot Tim. I also noticed that the following works:
:w !xargs -i move "{}" c:\\foo\\Música\\
Regards,
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