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Selectively deleting any instance of LINE from files matching SEARCH using sed
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| grep -Rl "SEARCH" . | while read FILE; do sed -i "" "/LINE/d" $FILE; done | |
| grep -Rl "SEARCH" . | while read FILE; do sed "/LINE/d" $FILE > tmp; mv tmp $FILE ; done |
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