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

On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 07:50 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 04:40 -0700, DwigtArmyOfChampions wrote:
> > [EXTERNAL SOURCE]
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> > 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?
> >
> > --
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> vim $(grep -l foo)
>

this is the xargs one


ls ycm* | xargs vim

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