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

On 2019-05-24 04:40, 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

As others have mentioned, you have

vim $(grep -l 'foo' *)

and

grep -l foo * | xargs vim

(which then has vim complain that input isn't from stdin)

Moreover, vim has some built-in grepping functionality which might be
helpful:

:vimgrep foo *

then you can use

:cn
:cN
:crew

to navigate them, as well as (at least as of a somewhat recent
version of vim) the

:cdo
:cfdo

commands which let you perform operations across all the matches or
across all the matching files. Especially since :vimgrep supports all
the power of Vim's regular expressions which can do things that
grep(1) can't do.

-tim





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