Bat file to find and replace text in file

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Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more. How can you find and replace text in a file using the Windows command-line environment? Ask Question. Asked 13 years, 4 months ago. Active 2 months ago.

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Beware, this command may also transcode the file to Unicode encoding. Also beware, if you target UTF8, it may introduce a Byte Order Mark at the beginning of the file that did not appear in the original. This works, but the performance is terrible on even a short list of files. Beware that the replace token 'foo' in this case is treated as a regular expression. Show 11 more comments. Get-Content test.

Michael Haren Mike Schall Mike Schall 5, 4 4 gold badges 35 35 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges. I can see PowerShell is capable of archieving this. But how can I make this run from a batch file example: myProc. Pablo, use powershell. Sure the answer was accepted, but it's not answer to the specified question. This will fail with a file in use error if you save to the same file. You need to change the powershell command to: Get-Content test. See the answer from Rachel: powershell -Command " gc myFile.

Show 16 more comments. Usage example: fart. VonC VonC 1. The cool thing is it's one single exe. No dependencies. No small prints. Super easy to deploy. Very lightweight and easy to use, but I was hoping it would print out the exact places that replacements took place. Not being able to see that gave me a sense of insecurity. Thanks, it's perfect, should be part of the standard dos tools and worked a charm.

The -p option however doesn't show you how many changes it 'would' make and always reports 0 which threw me for a few mins — sradforth. I understand this is a very old question but I found more information and hope it will be helpful to Stack Overflow users. I have included your link in the answer for more visibility. Show 10 more comments. Bill Richardson Bill Richardson 1, 1 1 gold badge 9 9 silver badges 2 2 bronze badges.

How is the sed suggestion better? This seems to be the most simple answer of them all and requires installing nothing. Can any sort of pattern matching be done here? Wildcards, Regex etc? Asad, yes that's true, the OP was asking about files, but in fact it works with streams which don't have to be files.

Bill how to use variable as a replacing text? I have value in a variable and a string which has some delimter. Any workarounds? Show 5 more comments. Create file replace. ReadAll objFile. JamesQMurphy 3, 1 1 gold badge 34 34 silver badges 38 38 bronze badges.

But i want to replace case-insensitive Can you provide the command for that? Thank you, This script was great, I love your prefix str and obj word , I do the same, It's old but gold, It's make code more readable. Show 1 more comment. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. I agree their terms are confusing, they also say "The information provided under the domain dostips. I'm not sure I have ever read any terms and conditions and been happy This is great. I love answers that don't involve downloading something else to do it.

Don't really have the time to debug it right now. Once removed, this worked fine. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Linked 0. See more linked questions.

Related Hot Network Questions. Question feed. Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled. Awesome stuff. Thanks for the code J — Shiva krishna Chippa. This is great. How do you replace text that has double quotes in the argument? Show 1 more comment. SachaDee SachaDee 8, 2 2 gold badges 19 19 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. This script is throwimg me an error that Rep. The Reo. The script will not execute on the system.

How to run this script without digitally signing the script? Check my EDIT. And try it again — SachaDee. The shortest solution. On the flip side, it works a bit slowly and doesn't support unicode files. This is the best solution In all other solutions if there is an exclamatory symbol! Need a mirror for that repl. If your answer is "yes," you know what to do. Dive in and help somebody!

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Retyping is not a good idea. You can do this to find the cause of the problem: Run the modified code below. Use notepad.