batch swap file recovery

[shawn wilson]

I lost some work in a git repo (it was deleted - I've recovered a
point in time - but vim has newer data). So, is there a way to give
vim a list of files and try to recover the newest version in the swap
file and close? I know, it may give old data, but this should be
pretty easy to pick out in git (based on additions/subtractions)?

something like:
find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -i{} vim ..... {}

?

[Christian Brabandt]

Do you have those swapfiles still around?

Christian
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[shawn wilson]

On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Christian Brabandt <cbl...@256bit.org> wrote:
>
> On So, 15 Okt 2017, shawn wilson wrote:
>
>> I lost some work in a git repo (it was deleted - I've recovered a
>> point in time - but vim has newer data). So, is there a way to give
>> vim a list of files and try to recover the newest version in the swap
>> file and close? I know, it may give old data, but this should be
>> pretty easy to pick out in git (based on additions/subtractions)?
>>
>> something like:
>> find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -i{} vim ..... {}
>
> Do you have those swapfiles still around?
>

Yes, every file probably doesn't have a swp/swo file, but everything I
want does.

[shawn wilson]

Not sure if this may be useful for some type of faq or something, but
this did take me a little bit to figure out:

for i in $(find -type f -not -path "./.git/*"); do f="${i/.\/}"; echo
$f; \vim --cmd 'set backupdir=/home/swilson/.vim/swpfiles/' --cmd 'set
dir=/home/swilson/.vim/swpfiles/' --cmd recover -c wq -N -u NONE "$f";
done