Re: [SLE] find a word in a file and remove it

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:50, Patrick B. O'Brien wrote:

Hi,

I need to find a word in a file then remove it. I'm doing the following, but with no luck, thanks.

'find /var/spool/mqueue/ -type f|xargs grep toulon -exec rm {} \;'

If you want to change the contents of text files try using sed instead. It has been to long since I have used it to give an example. man sed or info sed may be of some help. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*