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# 8  
Old 03-24-2015
the sting
Code:
 /flp/

need to be deleted in all the files present in given directory.
Code:
 /us/hub/

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only the particual string need to be deleted in all the files available in one particular directory.
# 9  
Old 03-24-2015
Another proposal.
The idea is to avoid unnecessary copy-back.
Code:
cd /us/hub || exit
for f in *
do
 if [ -f "$f" ]
 then
  perl -pe '$r=1 if s|/klp/||g; END {exit 1 unless defined($r)}' "$f" >"$f.new" &&
  cp "$f.new" "$f"
  rm -f "$f.new"
 fi
done

Last edited by MadeInGermany; 03-25-2015 at 03:45 PM.. Reason: fixed perl syntax, added cd
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