Delete a line from the fil

[ajd335]

hi all

i have a directory in which there are numbers of files.
Each file contains the following code at the end

 
<p align="right"><input name="closeme" type="button" value="Close Window" onclick="self.close()" /></p>
 

i want to remove that code from all the files in the directory

I have tried out

 perl -pi -e 's/<p align="right"><input name="closeme" type="button" value="Close Window" onclick="self.close()" \/><\/p> /           /gi'  .*php 
 

but it's not working..is there any other way to do so..
I have tried out sed command also
sed 'N;$;$;$d' filename but still not working..

[KevinADC]

hi all

i have a directory in which there are numbers of files.
Each file contains the following code at the end

[code ]
<p align="right"><input name="closeme" type="button" value="Close Window" onclick="self.close()" /></p>
[/code]

i want to remove that code from all the files in the directory

I have tried out

 perl -pi -e 's/<p align="right"><input name="closeme" type="button" value="Close Window" onclick="self.close()" \/><\/p> /           /gi'  .*php 
 

but it's not working..is there any other way to do so..
I have tried out sed command also
sed 'N;$;$;$d' filename but still not working..

Try:

 perl -pi -e 's/<p align="right"><input name="closeme" type="button" value="Close Window" onclick="self.close\(\)" \/><\/p> /           /gi'  .*php 
 

The parenthesis should be escaped \(\) otherwise perl will see them as capturing brackets and not literal parenthesis. I'm not sure if perl expands .*php into a list of files to edit. Hopefully it does.

[ajd335]

Try:

 perl -pi -e 's/<p align="right"><input name="closeme" type="button" value="Close Window" onclick="self.close\(\)" \/><\/p> /           /gi'  .*php 
 

The parenthesis should be escaped \(\) otherwise perl will see them as capturing brackets and not literal parenthesis. I'm not sure if perl expands .*php into a list of files to edit. Hopefully it does.

Thanks Kevin..
IT's working