Vim bufdo with arguments?

Question

How can I run a certain command on only specific buffers (a list of buffer names, or a buffer name pattern etc) ?

Answer 1

You are looking for :argdo. Populate the arglist via :args. Then do :argdo {cmd} to run {cmd} on each of the files in the arglist.

:args *.c
:argdo %s/FOO/BAR/ge|update

To see all this in action take a look at some of these Vimcasts episodes:

• Meet the arglist
• Populating the arglist
• Using :argdo to change multiple files
• Project-wide find and replace

For more help see:

:h :args
:h :argdo