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Re: TXT-file question
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Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:59:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kyle McDonald writes:
> > > Somethign like: (this is untested so YMMV)
> > >
> > > for FILE in *.txt; do
> > > if sed 's/ABCD/WXYZ/g' < $FILE >$FILE.new; then
> > > mv $FILE.new $FILE
> > > else
> > > echo Pattern not found or other error in $FILE.
> > > rm $FILE.new
> > > fi
> > > done
> > >
> > > If you hav Cygnus installed on your windows machine that might
> > > work also.
> >
> > or, if you have perl (windows or unix), you can do this:
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> > perl -i.bak -p -e 's/ABCS/WXYZ/g' *.txt
> >
> > which will create a backup (file.txt.bak) before changing all 'ABCD' to 'WXYZ'.
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> I'm on a pretty straightforward XP 98 system, alas. Maybe I should just
> pay some neighborhood kids to do it for me...
> Thank you for the input, though.
There may be some batch commands you can use, but I'm not sure offhand-- I
used to be somewhat of a whiz with Windows NT batch (1), but it's been a
while... not to mention that I know Windows 95/98 didn't have the same
functionality for "for" statements, so chances are XP wouldn't work with it
either. Lemme poke around...
Hmm... looks like you might be able to jigger something in batch. But it may
not work on XP, and even if it does, it'd be annoying, and it would ONLY
work if the text you're looking to replace is the entire contents of a
particular line.
Oh my. I just started to try and write it. Wow it's annoying. Suffice to say
if you were a programmer, it'll STILL be a challenge. There's so many stupid
tricks I forgot you have to do like output constantly to temporary files and
scan them for line numbers, and even to make subroutines, etc. Wow. I had
forgotten.
Anyway, you probably COULD throw a batch program together with the commands
for, findstr, find, more, if, goto, and echo. But it could easily be far
more trouble than it's worth.
DaveE
(1) - After being refused training (people in those departments didn't have
the time to train me), I was left to write programs with only help pages on
NT batch and an internet full of helpful examples. I ended up with a 50K+
batch program with clickable, dynamic menus, and lots of other wacky
advanced things that should NEVER have been done in NT batch code (this was
back in 1997 or so). But it was admittedly pretty cool.
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| <snip> (...) have (...) on (...) was (...) <snip> and <sigh> oh dear, yup those were the days, writing simple batch files and people calling you a programer. my computers were organized and navigated with batch files since 92 because windows was so (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I'm on a pretty straightforward XP 98 system, alas. Maybe I should just pay some neighborhood kids to do it for me... Thank you for the input, though. Dave! (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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