Call vim command from shell script

Question

I am using vimwiki as my local wiki and keep it in git in order to be able to sync it with various pcs. I am trying to automate the process of putting the generated HTML from vimwiki on my server so I can easily look stuff up.

My idea is to checkout the repository on a regular basis on the server and have shell script in place which calls vim and tells him to execute VimwikiAll2HTML, ending afterwards. I can then symlink the html folder somewhere or point nginx there or whatever.

I was able to figure out that I can directly execute a command when calling vim by using the -c parameter:

vim -c "VimwikiAll2HTML" -n index.wiki

This command automatically generates the correct HTML. However, I have to press a key and then quit vim (:q) in order to get back into the shell. It doesn't seem suited to be run inside a bash script run by cron? Can I change the command somehow in order to exit after the html generation finished? Or is there any other way I'm not aware of? I looked into the vimwiki plugin because I thought that it maybe uses an external library for HTML generation which I can call in my script but it seems that the plugin does everything by itself.

• Kent: just a suggestion, what I am doing is, sync the generated HTMLs to github (github-page), since there are some private stuff in my vimwiki, I sync my vimwiki to dropbox. In this way I can access my wiki anywhere in browser, as long as github is up and running.
• Sgoettschkes: I thought about this. I am editing the wiki on pcs which don't have dropbox access for various reasons and I don't put my private wiki on github ;) But it's possible of course, so thanks for the suggestion!

Answer 1

This command should work:

$ vim -c VimwikiAll2HTML -c q index.wiki

• Sgoettschkes: Wow, that was easy. Thank you very much. I played around with putting two commands in one -c parameter but didn't thought about using two -c parameters.