Can you mass edit all files returned in a grep?

Question

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-*\'
         


        

Answer 1

A nice general solution to this is to use xargs to convert a stdout from a process like grep to an argument list.

A la:

grep -rIl 'xg_icon-*' | xargs vi