open 100 files in vim

Question

I need to grep to tons (10k+) of files for specific words. now that returns a list of files that i also need to grep for another word.

i found on that grep can do this so i use:

grep -rl word1 *

which returns the list of files i want to check. now from these files (100+), i need to grep another word. so i have to do another grep

vim `grep word2 `grep -rl word1 *``

but that hangs, and it does not do anything,

why?

Answer 1

Because you have a double `, you need to use the $()

vi `grep -l 'word2' $(grep -rl 'word1' *)`

Or you can use nested $(...) (like goblar mentioned)

vi $(grep -l 'word2' $(grep -rl 'word1' *))

Answer 2

grep -rl 'word1' | xargs grep -l 'word2' | xargs vi

is another option.