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



On Fri,14.May.10, 20:32:11, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri,14.May.10, 19:04:42, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> You need 'find'. If that sequence or regexp is in the contents and not 
> the name of the file (not clear from your message) you'll also need 
> 'grep'. Both have excelent man pages and you can get help here if you 
> don't understand something.

Ughh, tired, you want to remove some regexp from a lot of files. Boyd 
had provided you the exact commandline.

Regards,
Andrei
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