Guest Bob Altman Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do a simple "find and replace" operation on strings in text files? TIA - Bob
Guest Detlev Dreyer Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: Simple find and replace "Bob Altman" <rda@nospam.nospam> wrote: > Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do a simple "find > and replace" operation on strings in text files? Start > Run: Notepad Start > Run: Wordpad Start > Run: CMD > Edit -- d-d
Guest Bob I Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: Simple find and replace Open said file in Notepad, and have at it. Bob Altman wrote: > Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do a simple "find and > replace" operation on strings in text files? > > TIA - Bob > >
Guest Bob Altman Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: Simple find and replace Okey dokey... looks like my problem statement could use a little tweak. Let's try this: Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do the same "find and replace" operation on a bunch of files (a-la grep)? BTW, it turns out that I can use Visual Studio to do this (find all instances of a string in all files that match a wildcard specification, and replace with another string), but I'm still curious if anything like this is baked into Windows somewhere... - Bob "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ed4pvQXzHHA.3772@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Open said file in Notepad, and have at it. > > Bob Altman wrote: >> Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do a simple "find >> and replace" operation on strings in text files? >> >> TIA - Bob >
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: Simple find and replace Nope, not that I've ever located. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Bob Altman" <rda@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:%23tUQRkXzHHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Okey dokey... looks like my problem statement could use a little tweak. > Let's try this: > > Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do the same "find > and replace" operation on a bunch of files (a-la grep)? > > BTW, it turns out that I can use Visual Studio to do this (find all > instances of a string in all files that match a wildcard specification, > and replace with another string), but I'm still curious if anything like > this is baked into Windows somewhere... > > - Bob > > "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:ed4pvQXzHHA.3772@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> Open said file in Notepad, and have at it. >> >> Bob Altman wrote: >>> Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do a simple "find >>> and replace" operation on strings in text files? >>> >>> TIA - Bob >> > >
Guest Richard Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: Simple find and replace On Jul 23, 6:30 pm, "Bob Altman" <r...@nospam.nospam> wrote: > Okey dokey... looks like my problem statement could use a little tweak. > Let's try this: > > Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do the same "find and > replace" operation on a bunch of files (a-la grep)? > > BTW, it turns out that I can use Visual Studio to do this (find all > instances of a string in all files that match a wildcard specification, and > replace with another string), but I'm still curious if anything like this is > baked into Windows somewhere... > > - Bob > > "Bob I" <bire...@yahoo.com> wrote in message > > news:ed4pvQXzHHA.3772@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > > Open said file in Notepad, and have at it. > > > Bob Altman wrote: > >> Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do a simple "find > >> and replace" operation on strings in text files? > > >> TIA - Bob There is a windows-version of grep. Google for it. HTH, Richard
Guest Curt Christianson Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 Re: Simple find and replace Grep for Windows http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm -- HTH, Curt Windows Support Center http://www.aumha.org Practically Nerded,... http://dundats.mvps.org/Index.htm "Bob Altman" <rda@nospam.nospam> wrote in message news:%23tUQRkXzHHA.600@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... | Okey dokey... looks like my problem statement could use a little tweak. | Let's try this: | | Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do the same "find and | replace" operation on a bunch of files (a-la grep)? | | BTW, it turns out that I can use Visual Studio to do this (find all | instances of a string in all files that match a wildcard specification, and | replace with another string), but I'm still curious if anything like this is | baked into Windows somewhere... | | - Bob | | "Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message | news:ed4pvQXzHHA.3772@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... | > Open said file in Notepad, and have at it. | > | > Bob Altman wrote: | >> Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do a simple "find | >> and replace" operation on strings in text files? | >> | >> TIA - Bob | > | |
Guest Ayush Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 Re: Simple find and replace [bob Altman] wrote-: > Okey dokey... looks like my problem statement could use a little tweak. > Let's try this: > Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do the same "find and > replace" operation on a bunch of files (a-la grep)? > BTW, it turns out that I can use Visual Studio to do this (find all > instances of a string in all files that match a wildcard specification, and > replace with another string), but I'm still curious if anything like this is > baked into Windows somewhere... Use WSH: microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript microsoft.public.scripting.jscript microsoft.public.scripting.wsh Good Luck, Ayush. -- Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/
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