vim automation ex commands

Question

Yeah, I know, I could just use sed. But lets assume I'm some sort of sicko. A masochist if you will..

I have a file, /tmp/a.script, containing:

%s_"taxonomy\.php[^"]*\([0-9]\)_"\1.taxonomy_g
%s_"rtf\.php[^"]*\([0-9]\)_"\1.rtf_g
%s_"csv\.php[^"]*\([0-9]\)_"\1.csv_g
%s_"xml\.php[^"]*\([0-9]\)_"\1.xml_g

(I snarfed them from my vim history)

I would very much like vim to execute those commands against a file, say example.html.

But, I can't figure out how to execute this script against the file.

I'm aware of the -c command line argument. But it only executes a single command, I want to execute all these commands.

Any ideas?

Answer is below, for reference, a quick sed way to do it would be:

for i in *.html ; do
  sed -i'' -e 's_"taxonomy\.php[^"]*\([0-9]\)_"\1.taxonomy_g'  $i
  sed -i'' -e 's_"rtf\.php[^"]*\([0-9]\)_"\1.rtf_g' $i
  sed -i'' -e 's_"csv\.php[^"]*\([0-9]\)_"\1.csv_g' $i
  sed -i'' -e 's_"xml\.php[^"]*\([0-9]\)_"\1.xml_g' $i
  echo $i
done

Answer 1

Have you tried :source?

vim example.html -c "source /tmp/a.script"