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Asked: 2026-05-12T07:02:58+00:00

Is there a simple way to remove the same line of text from a

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Is there a simple way to remove the same line of text from a folder full of text documents at the command line?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If your version of sed allows the -i.bak flag (edit in place):

    sed -i.bak '/line of text/d' *

    If not, simply put it in a bash loop:

    for file in *.txt
do
    sed '/line of text/d' "$file" > "$file".new_file.txt
done
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