How to delete all lines containing a string from all .xml files?

Question

I want to delete all lines containing string "abcfk" from all the .xml files in current directory tree. I tried find . -name "*.xml" | xargs sed -i 's/abcfk//g' find . -name "*.xml" | xargs sed -i 's/abcfk//g' find . -name "*.xml" | xargs sed -i 's/abcfk//g' but with this i can only replace..but not deleted the line. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You could do:

sed -i '/abcfk/d' $(find . -name "*.xml")

note that s/abcfk//g will leave empty lines, instead use /abcfg/d to delete lines with abcfg . Alternatively:

find . -name "*.xml" -exec sed -i '/abcfk/d' {} +