[CLUE-Tech] pipe list of file names to vim

Jeff Cann j.cann at isuma.org
Tue Dec 23 23:12:40 MST 2003


Greetings.

Frequently, I use grep to scan source code files looking for edits.  I'll use 
the grep -l command to list only the files:

$grep -l 'bob' *
empty-navbar.jsp
footer.jsp
header.jsp
nohome-header.jsp

I would like to feed this list of files into vim, so I can edit each one.   I 
tried a few things, but redirects and pipes are not getting the list of files 
into vim's argument list.

I'm stumped and appreciate suggestions.
Jeff
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