Grep for String and open at the corresponding line

Question

I\'m having several occurrences of a specific string over several files in several lines obtained with grep.

$ grep -rn --include=\"*.cpp\" mystring         


        

Answer 1

Here is another way to do

$ grep -rn --include="*.cpp" mystring > op
$ vim op

Then use gF and to come back to file op, use Ctrl + 6

Answer 2

You can load your grep output in Vim's quickfix list with:

$ vim -q <(grep -rn --include="*.cpp" mystring)

Go to the next occurence with :cn and to the previous occurrence with :cp.

See :help -q and :help quickfix.

Answer 3

A trick to use vim as a pager is to pass it a hyphen character. This causes it to read from STDIN instead of from file

grep -rn --include="*.cpp" mystring | vim -