Friday, May 24, 2019

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

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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