Question

I’ve a folder structure where the starting folder is test. test has two folders in it. test1 and test2, plus a bunch of files. There’s a word welcome in these bunch of files as well as the files in test1 and test2. I tried this and it did not work

sed 's/\<welcome\>//g' **/*

What am I doing wrong? How can this be done?

Answer 1

This might work for you (GNU sed):

find test -type f -exec sed -i '/welcome/d' '{}' \;