To open files in Grep's output to Vim's -o -mode

Question

How can you put a list of files to Vim\'s -o -mode?

I have a list of files as Grep\'s output. I run unsuccessfully

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grep -il          


        

Answer 1

The second one should work unless some of those filenames contain whitespace. You should do

grep -il sid * | xargs -d "\n" vim -o

if this is a possibility. -d "\n" tells xargs to use a newline as the delimiter when reading in the arguments; normally it is any whitespace (newline, tab, or space character)