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Can you mass edit all files returned in a grep?

I want to mass-edit a ton of files that are returned in a grep. (I know, I should get better at sed).

So if I do:

grep -rnI 'xg_icon-*'

How do I pipe all of those files into vi?

Solution

  • The easiest way is to have grep return just the filenames (-l instead of -n) that match the pattern. Run that in a subshell and feed the results to Vim.

    vim $(grep -rIl 'xg_icon-*' *)