Re: delete lines in subfolders

On 2014-11-03 11:10, [email protected] [sed-users] wrote:
> Hi,
> How can I delete lines in files in subfolders? Im using sed for
> windows and its not working, Im trying: find E:\emls\*.eml sed -i
> "1,9 d"  
> 
> Inside emls I have subfodlers with lots of .eml files and i want to
> delete the first lines of each file.

Usually you'd farm that out to the "find" utility, something like

  find /path/to/emls -name '*.eml' -exec sed -i.bak 1,9d {} \;

This will create ".bak" files which I would want to have around
until I'd tested the results.  If they worked, you can purge them
all (assuming you don't have any other .bak files you want to keep
around):

  find /path/to/emls -name '*.eml.bak' -delete

-tim