Bob McGowan wrote: > On 05/14/2010 10:37 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> 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.) >> >> > > If you're not comfortable with making the change in place (meaning > losing the original, in case you got something wrong in the script), > just add a "SUFFIX" to the -i option, as in '-i.bak', and sed will make > a backup copy, using the suffix as the extension appended to the file name. > Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. (John F. Kennedy)
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