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adrCoder
adrCoder

Reputation: 3275

sed command - apply in all text (.txt) files of folder

I want to apply this sed command

sed '/begin 644/,$d' file1.txt > file1.txt

to all files of the directory.. basically I want to keep the having the same name but deleting all lines after a certain string is found.. how can i adjust this sed command to be applied to all the text (.txt) files in the folder and keep their original names ?

EDIT : I am using Mac OS X I don't know if there is some issue with the sed command...

if i try to do

sed -i '/begin 644/,$d' *.txt

i get an error sed: 1: bad flag in substitute command : 'x'

2nd EDIT : Anu's answer works !

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2811

Answers (3)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 785146

You can use this find with sed:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt' -exec sed -i.bak '/begin 644/,$d' {} +

Or if you want to keep begin 644:

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.txt' -exec sed -i.bak -n '1,/begin 644/p' {} +

Upvotes: 3

ShaneQful
ShaneQful

Reputation: 2236

You can use the edit in place sed option and the star selector like so

sed -i '/begin 644/,$d' *.txt

Upvotes: 1

unxnut
unxnut

Reputation: 8839

Just use in-place version of sed as

sed -i '/begin 644/,$d' file1.txt

Upvotes: 2

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