Remove n lines from every file in a directory

Gussifinknottle · #1 (**permalink**) 06-21-2009

Hello,

I would like to remove n lines from all the files in a given directory. If it were one file, I can use the sed 'start, finish d' command.

How can I extend this to an entire directory of files?

Thanks,
Gussi.

Neo · #2 (**permalink**) 06-21-2009

A simple search of this site provides many answers.

The search keywords are pretty easy

sed+multiple+files+in+a+directory

Gussifinknottle · #3 (**permalink**) 06-21-2009

Thanks Neo. I did do something like what was suggested in one of the posts and executed the following script:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

for x in *
do
sed '1,13d' $x > temp
cat temp > $x
rm temp
done

exit 0

I ran this on a test data, two of the 3 files had the appropriate lines deleted. However, in the third one all of the lines were deleted. So I am not sure where I went wrong .

Thanks,
Gussi

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