Process Entire Group of Files

Choose one of the following examples:

Process Entire Group of Files (Even hundreds of files)

While the automation described above is great for processing a few files, sometimes you need to perform the same edit/conversion operation on hundreds or even thousands of files.

To expand on the first example, now consider that you have a directory of 500 text files that need to have all trailing whitespace removed. Without VEDIT you would be looking at a week or more of very tedious work. (Heck, you might even start looking for another job.)

VEDIT makes this task almost trivially simple. (And you will impress your boss and coworkers with your productivity.)

We will assume that you created the "stripw.vdm" macro file as described in the first example.

1. Start VEDIT and select the menu item {MISC, Wildfile macro}.
2. At the "Enter filename:" prompt, enter a file specification, such as "c:\doco\*.txt" which uses the standard wildcard characters "?" and "*" to specify the group of files.
   
   E.g. to specify all files in the "c:\doco" directory and in all of its sub-directories, enter "c:\doco\*.* -s".
3. At the next "Enter filename:" prompt, either enter another file specification, if you need to include more files, or just press <Enter> to continue.
4. At the "Execute a [C]ommand, [M]acro, [S]earch or [R]eplace:" prompt, press "m" to run a macro.
5. At the "Enter filename of macro:" prompt, enter "stripw.vdm".
6. At the "Should -MORE- be enabled?" prompt, press "n".
7. At the "Press any key to continue..." prompt, press <Enter> and the conversion will start.

You will briefly see the name of each file processed displayed on the screen. With average sized text files, VEDIT can process several per second. (So your coffee break while VEDIT does your work should be short.)

For many customers, this "Wildfile" function is VEDIT's most important and useful feature. It can save you days of tedious work. We hope you will give it a try.

Although beyond the scope of this (already too long) overview, the "Wildfile" function  can also be fully automated with a batch file or Windows icon.

These examples just barely scratch the surface of the many ways in which VEDIT can automate your editing, conversion and file "clean up" operations.

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