How can I open a set of files in sublime based on their contents

Question

I am trying to find all the files that contain a search term:

grep -lir "Search" .

and pipe that into sublime:

grep -lir "Search" . | subl

but all this does is open a single file in sublime containing all the search results file paths as lines in the file. What I would like is to open each of those files as a sublime project.

Answer 1

Using the command subl $(grep -lir "Search" .) will give you the expected output. The $(command) expands with the output of the command and gives it as input to the sublime command. More information can be found in the Bash Manual.

Answer 2

Just use xargs:

grep -lir "Search" . | xargs subl