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Script to search for a particular string in all the files, and delete that line.



#!/bin/bash

grep -rl 'pdhcentral.com' . > recordsa_pdhcentral.txt

for i in `cat recordsa_pdhcentral.txt`; do

FileName=$i;

FileBack=$FileName"_bk";

if [ -f $FileName ]; then

sed 's/.*pdhcentral.*//g' $FileName > $FileBack; mv -f $FileBack $FileName

else

echo $FileName " Doesnt Exists...................!!!!! ";

fi

done



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Jino Joseph said…
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July 1, 2014 at 1:01 AM
Jino Joseph said…
This can be easily done by the below command.

# find . -type f -exec sed -i.bak 's/.*pdhcentral.*//g' {} \;

Eventhough I am not going to delete the post, because it is my history. :-)
July 1, 2014 at 1:04 AM
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