Many thanks echo. Improve this question. Der Hochstapler 83k 57 57 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Tika9o9 Tika9o9 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. T For the F. Improve this answer. Powershell works a treat, will use that from now on, no need for exe and does it in less stages : — Tika9o9. Recently tried the "" suggestion using the find and replace text exe and that also worked perfectly, just in case any one reading wanted to know — Tika9o9.
Try this on windows PowerShell. Tharaka Wijerama Tharaka Wijerama 1 1 1 bronze badge. How is this different from other answer? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.
Post as a guest Name. Take a look at Is there any sed like utility for cmd. Executive summary:. Two batch files that supply search and replace functions have been written by Stack Overflow members dbenham and aacini using native built-in jscript in Windows. They are both robust and very swift with large files compared to plain batch scripting, and also simpler to use for basic replacing of text.
They both have Windows regular expression pattern matching. This sed-like helper batch file is called repl. This grep-like helper batch file is called findrepl. Both become powerful system-wide utilities when placed in a folder that is on the path , or can be used in the same folder with a batch file, or from the cmd prompt. May be a little bit late, but I am frequently looking for similar stuff, since I don't want to get through the pain of getting software approved.
However, you usually use the FOR statement in various forms. Someone created a useful batch file that does a search and replace. Have a look here. It is important to understand the limitations of the batch file provided.
For this reason I don't copy the source code in this answer. I'm prefer to use sed from GNU utilities for Win32 , the followings need to be noted.
So the working code of sed to find and replace text in a file in windows is as below. Because I'm not familiar with Powershell and want to save my searches for later use I need something more "user friendly" preferable if it has GUI.
That little program has nice GUI and support regex for searching in filenames and within files. Only disadventage is that if you want to save your settings you have to run the program as an administrator at least on Win7. The script morechilli linked to will work for some files, but unfortunately it will choke on ones which contain characters such as pipes and ampersands.
VBScript is a better built-in tool for this task. You may then easily manipulate content multiple times before writing to a output file. Also see how multi-line values are given in a. For me, to be sure to not change the encoding from UTF-8 , keeping accents Download Cygwin free and use unix-like commands at the Windows command line.
The 2nd one is a filter. Getting content of the file and replacing it with some other text and then storing into another file. Command -1 Get-Content filename. If you have it, you can use Visual studio Find and Replace Utility. It allows you to select a folder and replace the contents of any file in that folder with any other text you want. Hope this will be helpful. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?
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. Viewed 1. Ray Ray k 96 96 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Rachel Rachel k 60 60 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. 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.
When you work with Git on Windows then simply fire up git-bash and use sed. If you want to replace a string in versioned files only of a Git repository, you may want to use:. I played around with some of the existing answers here and prefer my improved solution The benefit of this is that you can pipe in output from any program.
Will look into using regular expressions with this too. Couldn't work out how to make it into a BAT file for easier use though With the replacer.
In this case will replace quoted "Foo" and "Bar" :. Here's a solution that I found worked on Win XP. In my running batch file, I included the following:. The replace. Take a look at Is there any sed like utility for cmd. Executive summary:. May be a little bit late, but I am frequently looking for similar stuff, since I don't want to get through the pain of getting software approved.
However, you usually use the FOR statement in various forms. Someone created a useful batch file that does a search and replace. Have a look here. It is important to understand the limitations of the batch file provided. For this reason I don't copy the source code in this answer. Two batch files that supply search and replace functions have been written by Stack Overflow members dbenham and aacini using native built-in jscript in Windows.
They are both robust and very swift with large files compared to plain batch scripting, and also simpler to use for basic replacing of text. They both have Windows regular expression pattern matching.
This sed-like helper batch file is called repl. This grep-like helper batch file is called findrepl. Both become powerful system-wide utilities when placed in a folder that is on the path , or can be used in the same folder with a batch file, or from the cmd prompt. Because I'm not familiar with Powershell and want to save my searches for later use I need something more "user friendly" preferable if it has GUI.
That little program has nice GUI and support regex for searching in filenames and within files. Only disadventage is that if you want to save your settings you have to run the program as an administrator at least on Win7.
The script morechilli linked to will work for some files, but unfortunately it will choke on ones which contain characters such as pipes and ampersands. VBScript is a better built-in tool for this task.
You may then easily manipulate content multiple times before writing to a output file. Also see how multi-line values are given in a. I'm prefer to use sed from GNU utilities for Win32 , the followings need to be noted. So the working code of sed to find and replace text in a file in windows is as below. Download Cygwin free and use unix-like commands at the Windows command line.
The 2nd one is a filter. If you have it, you can use Visual studio Find and Replace Utility. It allows you to select a folder and replace the contents of any file in that folder with any other text you want. Hope this will be helpful.
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