Re: How I can run vim commands from a bash script?

Hi,

Marc Weber wrote:
> vim was not designed for that kind of task.
> You can pass commands via -c and --cmd (see --help).
>
> Give this a try:
>
> sed -i 's/foo/bar/' *.txt
>
> -i = write back file "in place"
>
> vim foo will open file name 'foo'.
> vim '%/s...' will open file name '%/s...' (and fail)
>
> for x in ..
> vim -c "e $x| %s/ ... | wq!"
> done
>
> is close to what you requested, but still no proper escaping for
> filenames.

is there a reason you used ":e $x" inside the parameter of the -c switch
instead of passing the filename as a separate parameter?

for x in ..
vim -c "%s/ ... | wq!" $x
done

Another approach would be to use Vim's :argdo command:

vim -c "set autowrite nomore" -c "argdo %s/.../.../" -c "q" *.txt

Regards,
Jürgen

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