How to open all files grep finds containing a certain text, recursive

Question

I type

grep -r 'something' .

and grep finds a lot of hits.

Now I want to open all files that were found.

I try

grep -r 'something' . | xargs vim

nothing happens.

Answer 1

Maybe this ?! :)

grep -rl 'something' . | xargs vim

or

vim "$(grep -rl 'something' .)"

-l, --files-with-matches
Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which output would normally have been printed. Scanning each input file stops upon first match.

Answer 2

Assuming there are no special characters in your files (like newlines), try this:

grep -lr 'something' . | xargs bash -c 'vim "$@" < /dev/tty' _