deleting lines from multiple text files - Shell Programming and Scripting

vrms · #3 (**permalink**) 04-25-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by jim mcnamara

sed or awk are good choices - here is sed:

Code:

for file in  `ls *.txtdatafile`
do
      sed '7,8d' $file > tmp.tmp
      mv tmp.tmp $file
done

Thanks for the Reply Jim

Unfortunately this sends them all into one big tmp.file. I need to create a new text file for every single text file that is in the directory.