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Linux - How to delete .csv file containing "X" data

After extracting the .csv.gz files you can delete certain unwanted data by running the following

sed -i '/PROXY/d' filename.csv

That command will delete any lines that contain the word "PROXY"

To delete it for lots of files at once run the following

sed -i '/PROXY/d' *.csv

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