Simple find and replace

[Bob Altman]

Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do a simple "find and
replace" operation on strings in text files?

TIA - Bob

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

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

 

[Bob I]

Open said file in Notepad, and have at it.

 

[Bob Altman]

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

 

[Gary S. Terhune]

Nope, not that I've ever located.

 

[Richard]

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

There is a windows-version of grep. Google for it.

HTH,
Richard

 

[Curt Christianson]

Grep for Windows
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm

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Curt

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| 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
|
| | > 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
| >
|
|

 

[Ayush]

[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.