Interactive search and replace from shell

Question

Search and replace over multiple files is difficult in my editor. There are plenty of tricks that can be done with find, xargs and sed

Answer 1

I would add these modifications to Dillon's answer:

The -le option should be added to the grep command.

vim `find . -name '*.c' -exec grep -le '\'  {} \;`

Then you are in Vim, but you don't have the opportunity to choose what to replace, add c option at the end for interactive replacements and bufdo at the beginning for walking through every file:

:bufdo %s/junk/rubbish/gce

Later you save all your work:

:bufdo wq!