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Saebekassebil
Saebekassebil

Reputation: 714

Delete matching line(s) from a list of files

I've just been writing some code, that renders a locale property redundant. Because of that, I'd like it to be able to remove that property from every locale file of the project, but I simply couldn't find a way of doing that, and I ended up doing it by hand in vim.

Now, I'm no UNIX black-belt, but I know that there must be a pretty simple solution to such a trivial problem, probably hidden in the depths of sed or awk. So I managed to match the property (the property being no_outline):

sed -e '/no_outline=/d' l10n/*/viewer.properties

But this only prints out the contents of each file, without the no_outline line. Isn't it possible to write the "result" of the sed command to the same file as it was executed on?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 87

Answers (1)

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195049

you could:

sed -i '/no_outline=/d' l10n/*/viewer.properties

from man page:

   -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]

              edit files in place (makes backup if SUFFIX supplied)

Upvotes: 2

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