| remove lines in multiple files
SED, Perl, Delete lines, multiple files |
travlang
msg:3933211 | 11:22 pm on Jun 14, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I need to remove line numbers 6 to 106 on over 100000 html files. I tried sed
sed '6,106d' *.html
but this outputs to the screen
sed '6,106d' x.html > x.bak
works but I cannot do one file at a time. Does anyone know of a way to use wildcards in the output file or of a script that will go through every file in a directory and remove those numbered lines
Thanks
Howard
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bkeep
msg:3941640 | 4:17 pm on Jun 27, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Have you tried using find? find . -type f -name "*.html" -exec sed '6,106d' {} > {}.bak \;
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phranque
msg:3959751 | 12:00 pm on Jul 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
or use a for loop:
for i in *.html; do
sed '6,106d' $i > $i.bak
done |
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