Indenting multiple files

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I want to indent multiple files which are poorly indented and indent them properly as would vim do when I type gg=G.
Is there someway to enter the = command or its alias in the command mode? i.e after a :?
If that is possible I can use the bufdo command like in this question.

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You can run any normal command with :normal, e.g. :normal =G.

If the files are C source code, it may be easier to use the external program indent.

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To indent the whole file automatically:

gg
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gg - go to beginning of the file
G - go to end of the file
= - indent

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You can use vim -o {file-list} to open files horizontally splitted, or vim -O {file-list} to open them vertically splitted. But in your case, I always use vim -p {file-list} to open files in tab pages (because size of each window is nearly size of your terminal in this mode).

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