remove lines in multiple files

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remove lines in multiple files

SED, Perl, Delete lines, multiple files

travlang

11:22 pm on Jun 14, 2009 (gmt 0)

I need to remove line numbers 6 to 106 on over 100000 html files. I tried sed

sed '6,106d' *.html
but this outputs to the screen
sed '6,106d' x.html > x.bak
works but I cannot do one file at a time. Does anyone know of a way to use wildcards in the output file or of a script that will go through every file in a directory and remove those numbered lines
Thanks
Howard

bkeep

4:17 pm on Jun 27, 2009 (gmt 0)

Have you tried using find?

find . -type f -name "*.html" -exec sed '6,106d' {} > {}.bak \;

phranque

12:00 pm on Jul 26, 2009 (gmt 0)

or use a for loop:

for i in *.html; do
sed '6,106d' $i > $i.bak
done