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(...) Oh, I would usually scoff anyone who called themselves a programmer for having written batch code, but this stuff was fully fledged programming. My boss had me doing testing on a linker that was written for a DSP. It started as "maybe you (...) (22 years ago, 19-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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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(...) Or get PERL for Windows (URL) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 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" (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) try textpad (IMO the best text editor for the win-systems). you can download a version at www.textpad.com. there is a feature in the find-replace dialog where you can replace text in mulitple files at once. -chris (22 years ago, 18-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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(...) or, if you have perl (windows or unix), you can do this: perl -i.bak -p -e 's/ABCS/WXYZ/g' *.txt which will create a backup (file.txt.bak) before changing all 'ABCD' to 'WXYZ'. :) Dan (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Are you on windows? (if so I don't know) or on UNIX/linux? If you're on UNIX or linus you could use sed. 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 (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hello all: I have a bunch of text files, each of which contains a character sequence (say, ABCD) that I need to change (say, to WXYZ). The character sequence is within the body of each file, rather than the title. Is there an easy method of swapping (...) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yes. But SLA's are rarely enforced because apparently dropping a screwdriver in a DMS battery frame is considered an act of god. Calum (formerly employed by Canada's largest backbone provider) (22 years ago, 18-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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