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Miles
Miles

Reputation: 65

Find string in file then delete

I am trying to find a particular string in files on my server. I have done the following which gives me a list of files, but how do I now delete them?

grep -H -r "example" /home/72754/domains | cut -d: -f1

Upvotes: 0

Views: 437

Answers (2)

Temple
Temple

Reputation: 1631

Try this if you want to delete files:

grep -l -r "example" /home/72754/domains | xargs rm

Upvotes: 1

Mohammad AbuShady
Mohammad AbuShady

Reputation: 42799

You can use sed with the same pattern and change what you want

If you want to delete the whole line then something like this

sed '/example/d' /home/72754/domains

And to update the same file, use the -i flag

If you want to update a certain pattern, you can use something like this

sed 's/password/****/' /file

And again you can use the -i flag to update and overwrite the file

Upvotes: 0

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