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by lojack 3956 days ago
As a counter argument, when grepping files you still need to parse the output in order to open the correct file.

And, yes I understand that you can have grep output a path name and pass that directly in as an argument to your text editor. Similarly, it'd be relatively trivial to write a bash function that'd parse the class name and find the correct file to open.

Something like:

    function lookupcss() {
        find . | grep $(expr "$1" : '\(.*\)__.*' | sed 's/_/.*/g')".*\.css$";
    }