This script is an exact alias to egrep except that instead of printing out the files, it opens them in VIM sequentially.

Egrep to Vim

#!/bin/bash
#
shopt -s -o nounset         # Option Explicit
# =============================================================================
 
for ITEM in `egrep -l $* 2> /dev/null | sed -e 's/ /[SPACE]/g'` ; do
 
    # unescape spaces
    declare FILEPATH
    FILEPATH=`echo $ITEM | sed -e 's/\[SPACE\]/ /g' -e 's/\n//g'`
 
    vim $FILEPATH
done
 
exit 0;