Recursively Remove Lines in Files

Sometimes you would like to delete all lines containing a certain KEYWORD word for all files contained in a folder all of it child folders.

When using macOs you can simply do the following:

  find . -type f -iname "*.properties" -print0| \
  xargs -0 sed -i '' /KEYWORD/d

The parameter -iname "*.properties will only take files with the ending properties into account.

Have a look on the related topic on Stackoverflow where you can find alternatives for zsh and GNU sed.