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I recently had a series of files that contained the string '-1'. I wanted to remove all the lines that contained that string from all files in a directory tree. Using sed or awk seemed to be the obvious thing to do:
awk '!/-1/ {print $0 }' filename
Prints the file to STDOUT minus the lines containing '-1'. This does the same with sed:
sed -e '/-1/d' filename
However what I wanted to do was to modify the files "in place", to do this in awk seemed a bit convoluted, but in sed it's easy:
sed -i -e '/-1/d' `find path/to/directory`
Here, find walks a directory tree and passes all the files to sed that then removes the line containing '-1' rewriting the file.
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