Re: [tlug] fgrep: passing results to vi

[bruno raoult <br@example.com>]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:04, A. Sajjad Zaidi wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:57:43PM +0900, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> > I'm using "fgrep -rI ..." to find files that contain certain patterns. 
> > Then I use vi to edit the files.
> > 
> > Is there a way for me to pass the results (filenames) to vi so that I 
> > can jump right into vi and start editing the files?
> 
> You could do something like:
> 
> vi `fgrep -rI pattern /dir/to/check/ | awk -F: '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq`
> 
> There may be an option to only print the filenames in which case you
> dont need the awk statement. I can't find any such option though.

vi `fgrep -rIl pattern /dir/to/check | sort -u`

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