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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting delete part of file from pattern1 to pattern2 Post 302504356 by jim mcnamara on Monday 14th of March 2011 11:13:44 AM
Old 03-14-2011
Code:
ls /FOLDER/*.txt | 
while read fname
do
    sed '/pattern1/,/pattern2/d' $fname > tmp.tmp
    mv tmp.tmp $fname
done

For your patterns you need to escape (add a leading \ character) to < and > and /
for example:
Code:
</s>  becomes \<\/s\>

 

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i-ls(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   i-ls(1)

NAME
i-ls - display file stat and checksum information for files SYNOPSIS
i-ls [-s] filename i-ls [-s] dirname Specify a filename for i-ls to examine, or specify a directory with dirname to examine all the files in the directory. -s Do not show/calculate checksums for all regular files. DESCRIPTION
The integrit system detects intrusion by detecting when trusted files have been altered. integrit records information about files in a database. i-ls allows the user to see that information for live files. The output syntax is the same as that of integrit. EXAMPLES
i-ls /tmp/foo.txt shows file stat attributes for the file, "/tmp/foo.txt". i-ls /tmp shows file stat attributes for all files in the directory, "/tmp". i-ls -s /tmp shows file stat attributes for all files in the directory, "/tmp", also including also checksums for all regular files. AUTHOR
Ed L Cashin <ecashin@users.sourceforge.net> See the integrit web site for up to date releases and information at http://integrit.sourceforge.net/ SEE ALSO
Integrit File Verification System Manual (info), lstat(2) Version 4.1 Jul 27, 2001 i-ls(1)
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