Remove Text from Multiple Files
February 18th, 2010
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Shell script to remove some text from multiple files
Here is a small script that reads all *.txt or all *.html, all *.php files and delete all lines between word1 and word2:
#!/bin/bash
FILES="*.php"
for f in $FILES
do
INF="$f"
OUTF="$f.out.tmp"
# replace
sed '/word1/,/word2>/d' $INF > $OUTF
/bin/cp $OUTF $INF
/bin/rm -f $OUTF
done
Then save this file as “myscript.txt”
run this script with: # bash myscript.txt
