Re: delete lines in subfolders

didnt work, but thanks.


I think the find from windows is screwing it.


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Tim Chase [email protected] [sed-users] <
[email protected]> wrote:


>
>
> 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
>
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>




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