Cut certain lines in a number of files 1

[Trancemission]

I am looking to remove 1 line of text from about 50 zone (ASCII Files) files. The line of text is the same in every file. All the files are in the same directory. The line that I which ti use has a unique text string of mailfix.

I am just starting my UNIX scripting honeymoon but have been flung in at the deep end due to a techie being ill

All help would be appriciated.

Marcus

 

[grega]

OK ... here's one way. You'll need to adapt it a bit though.

for i in `ls file_pattern*`
do
awk '!/mailfix/ {print}' $i > $i.tmp
mv $i.tmp $i
done

Greg.

 

[grega]

In fact, you don't even need the print statement ...

for i in `ls file_pattern*`
do
  awk '!/mailfix/' $i > $i.tmp
  mv $i.tmp $i
done

Greg.

 

[Trancemission]

Cheers for that worked fine, will amend the print!

Cheers

 

[StevieW85]

My choice would be to replace the awk line with

egrep -v mailfix $i > $i.tmp

- Steve StevieW85@go.com