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Milktrader
Milktrader

Reputation: 9838

Open all files in a folder

Suppose you'd like to open all the files in your checkout folder under the /trunk subdirectory. Assume the files are called first.c second.r third.cpp. How can you open all the files into vim with a single command.

The obvious answer is the following

$ vim first.c second.r third.cpp

But can you do this more simply?

Upvotes: 28

Views: 31927

Answers (6)

Ash
Ash

Reputation: 4718

In addition to the answers given above, I'd like to point out that you can also do that from inside vim itself using

:args *

which sets the arglist to be the name of the files in the directory, and then you can display them in tabs with :tab all (or you can use :argdo tabe).

Upvotes: 11

superarts.org
superarts.org

Reputation: 7238

Edit all files using a given pattern:

vim `find . -name "*your*pattern*here*"`

Super useful when I do this:

vim `find . -name "*.go"`

Upvotes: 5

hernytan
hernytan

Reputation: 133

durum's answer is incomplete. To open all files in the directory without opening files in subdirectories, use this:

vim `find . -maxdepth 1 -type f`

Upvotes: 2

durum
durum

Reputation: 3404

The other answers will not work if you have subdirectories. If you need to open all files in all subdirectories you can use command substitution:

vim `find . -type f`

If you want to ignore files in subdirectories write:

vim `find . -type f -depth 1`

You can, of course, get as fancy as you want using the find command.

Upvotes: 9

linuscl
linuscl

Reputation: 793

To edit all files in the current folder, use:

vim *

To edit all files in tabs, use:

vim -p *

To edit all files in horizontally split windows, use:

vim -o *

Upvotes: 32

desau
desau

Reputation: 3021

Sounds like you're on linux or some Unix variant. Using the asterisk gets you all files in the current folder:

$ vim *

Upvotes: 22

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