Anyone here know how to write batch files (.bat)?

[jady]

I need a batch file that will take all of the txt files in a directory and replace all of the "SEQ" and "ESQ" entries with ";" and place a carriage return after the "END" statement.

Anyone????

[Georynn]

Suggestion (but time consuming)

find <text string with quotes and no brackets> *.* > results.txt

That will put your results into a text file named results.
Open it in notepad, use replace command for each instance?


There are third party tools that do this; I'm not sure you can batch that out, without an external program...

try SED from the unix library....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed

[cdef]

Do you mean a legacy DOS batch file? Well, it could be done, even if it's a little fiddly. Why not just use a text editor that has the command 'Find/Replace In Files'?.

[jady]

Originally Posted by cdef

What OS? You might use a text editor that has the command 'Find/Replace In Files'.

Win XP


I am using a batch replace program right now but I was hoping to automate it to a click instead of manually typing everything into the program.

I have to fix the code in hundreds upon hundreds of programs a day.......

[cdef]

I'd suggest EmEditor. You can easily define very powerful macros to batch search & replace whatever text at one click. Plus, it has syntax highlighting for many programming languages. Free in this version (6.00.4). The latest shareware version is here.

[projectMalamute]

With WinXP out of the box I have no idea. If you are willing to either install the Cygwin package of Unix utilities or Perl the problem is trivial.

[ryano]

Originally Posted by jady

I need a batch file that will take all of the txt files in a directory and replace all of the "SEQ" and "ESQ" entries with ";" and place a carriage return after the "END" statement.

Anyone????

Hey Jady,

As others have mentioned installing cygwin or some other Unix like tool set (that contains the sed utility) would be good. Perl is also great for this type of thing. Personally this is something I would do with Ant (with Ant contrib). A really nice build tool/utility.

If you must use batch files I think you can use edlin to perform the search/replace. edlin is an old line editor included with DOS and it seems to still exist in Windows. I have it here on Vista so I assume it is included with previous Windows versions as well. edlin has an R option for replace.

If you search google for "dos batch edlin search replace", you'll get some useful info.

hth.
--ryano

[Stumbo]

Take a look at these:
http://www.downloadtopc.com/get/281/..._Software.html
http://text-file-replace.qarchive.org/