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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to find a pattern from an external file in a directory containing multiple file recursively Post 302718653 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 20th of October 2012 10:47:38 AM
Old 10-20-2012
Code:
# your input file is called infile in this example
find /directory -type f |
while read fname 
do
    grep -v -f infile  $fname > tmp.tmp
    mv tmp.tmp $fname
done

 

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