Find a term and remove it, from many files

[anshuman]

Hi, My requirement is i have to find a word 'Grants' In many text files and delete the entire line containing 'Grants'. But i need to do In many text files at a time. How can this be achieved

[foxidrive]

Give this a whirl:

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@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%a in (' dir *.txt /b /a-d ')  do find /v "Grants" < "%%a"  >"%%~na-new%%~xa"

[dbenham]

Similar to foxidrive's solution, except uses FINDSTR with regex and word boundry anchors. Also effectively edits the files instead of creating new modified copies.

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@echo off
for /f "delims=" %%F in (' dir *.txt /b /a-d ')  do (
  findstr /v "\<Grants\>" "%%F" >"%%F.new"
  move /y "%%F.new" "%%F" >nul
)

Add the /I switch if you want the search to be case insensitive.


Dave Benham