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

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Subject: Re: Deleting some regexp/simple expression from lots of files in a secure way
From: Mike McClain <mike.junk@nethere.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 10:48:00 -0700
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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 07:04:42PM +0200, 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?
> 
Look at sed's -i switch or Perl.
Back everything up first.
Mike

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