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Running Turtle
Running Turtle

Reputation: 12752

How can I automatically execute a shell command after saving a file in Vim?

This is because I'd like to automatically run tests after each file save.

I have looked at autocmd and BufWritePost, but I cannot make it work.

Upvotes: 88

Views: 43004

Answers (2)

Siwei
Siwei

Reputation: 21597

Put this into your .vimrc file:

(take raml2html doc/api.raml > public/api_doc.html as a command example)

autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost *.raml silent! !raml2html doc/api.raml > public/api_doc.html

Notice:

  • silent! will hide all the output of this command
  • :silent if you are using Vim 7.3 or less, and silent! if using Vim 7.3 and later
  • need to quit and restart Vim, to make .vimrc take effect.

Upvotes: 1

Alex Howell
Alex Howell

Reputation: 1341

This runs run_tests.sh after any file is saved, with the current filename as the only parameter:

:autocmd BufWritePost * !run_tests.sh <afile>

View the auto-command with:

:autocmd BufWritePost *

And remove all auto-commands from the previous with:

:autocmd! BufWritePost *

Upvotes: 116

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