vimdo - Terminal apply vim normal command to files in batch. Automatically apply vim commands to multiple files.

vimdo.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Basically just runs vim commands as ":execute normal", saves the file, and quits for each file in a loop

vimdo() {
	local CMD=$1
	shift

	for f
	do
		vim -N -u NONE -n -c "set nomore" -c ":execute \"norm! $CMD\"" -cwq! $f
	done
}

# Examples:
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# vimdo "GddggP:%s/Foo/Bar/g\<CR>" ./foo.go
#    -- Move the last line of a file to the top, and rename every occurrance of Foo to Bar
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# vimdo "/Func\<CR>f)i, newParam\<ESC>" ./*.go
#    -- Search for Func function, and add a parameter called "newParam" as the last argument
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# References:
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# StackOverflow - Executing VIM commands in a shell script - https://stackoverflow.com/a/18865698
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