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Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way



On Friday 14 May 2010 12:04:42 Merciadri Luca wrote:
> I have many text files (actually .tex files) which contain some
> sequence or regexp (it depends on the files) that I would like to
> remove. Is there a commandline/GUI for doing this massive edit?

(sed -i -e "s/$regexp//" "$file") for a single file.  (GNU sed only.)

(find $dir -type f -exec sed -i -e "s/$regexp//" {} \;) for all files in a 
directory.
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