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

On 2019-05-24, 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?

Using xargs with an interactive program like vim has problems, such
as leaving your terminal in an odd state after vim exits. A better
solution is to use GNU parallel:

$ grep -l 'foo' * | parallel --tty -X vim

Regards,
Gary

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