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
Another possibility is to tell Vim that the file to be read will be
found on stdin:
grep -l 'foo' | view -
One problem with this approach is that using "view" (because stdin is
essentially non-writable) will make ":new foobar" open the new file
read-only as if you had used :sview rather
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:
>
>
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:
>
> grep -l 'foo' * | xargs vim
> --
Or, if the number isn't likely huge:
vim $(grep -l 'foo' *)
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2019-05-24 13:40 GMT+02:00, DwigtArmyOfChampions > I tried "grep -l
'foo' * | vim" and "grep -l 'foo' * | xargs | vim' but
> those didn't work. Any ideas?
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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,
>
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
>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
