On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Anthony Campbell wrote:
I have a directory with over 400 files, some of which contain a
particular string I want to modify manually. Is there any way to tell
vim to edit just the files which contain the specified string?
Within Vim, you can use the :vim[grep] command to get a list of all the
matches in a quickfix list.
:vim[grep] pattern *file-glob* " does the grep
:cope[n] " c = current, ope[n] the list
Personally, I prefer using external tools, since the files are usually
scattered across directories and I don't necessarily want all the files
in a given list of directories. (So, at work, I have some utilities to
search files I use often, etc.) To open such a list of files was the
reason I started using GNU Parallel[1] (after its super-helpful author
replied to something like this off-list):
$ (thing to generate a list of files) | parallel -uXj1 vim
e.g. open all files containing the string '$username'
$ find-grep '$username' -l | parallel -uXj1 vim
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Best,
Ben
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
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