Re: how to call vim on files that are the results of a grep -l command in bash?

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 04:40:54AM -0700, DwigtArmyOfChampions wrote:
>From a bash shell I can type "grep -l 'foo' *" and that will output a list of files that contain 'foo'. I want to vim that list of files. In other words, assuming the grep command returns file1, file2, ... filen, I want to run the command:
>
>vim file1 file2 file3 ... filen
>
>I tried "grep -l 'foo' * | vim" and "grep -l 'foo' * | xargs | vim' but those didn't work. Any ideas?

I use the quickfix list for this. Previous commands will break on whitespace in filepaths. This won't (but it will on newlines - I didn't figure out how to work it with Vim for those), but you'll have to tell your command to use a null as a separator, eg. `grep -Zl foo * | pvim`:

pvim() {
local files=()
while IFS= read -rd '' file; do
files+=("$file")
done
(( ${#files[@]} )) && vim -q <( printf '%s:1: \n' "${files[@]}" ) < /dev/tty
}

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