Anyone have Script to edit multiple files?

[Joyjeet]

Hi friends ,
Can anyone tell me how to write a script that will edit multiple text files? File can have extensions as *.htm, *.ini, and *.xml etc. etc. It will perform the actions such as finding or replacing the text words and adding or removing comments. I am regular user of this forum and know that I will get answer about it. Thank you in advance.

[Praetor]

Hi, I have got on internet something which is helpful to you. You can try this whether it is working or not? You need to do steps as follow:

1.Open Notepad, paste the below script :

@echo off
REM — Prepare the Command Processor –
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
SETLOCAL DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

::BatchSubstitude – parses a File line by line and replaces a substring”
::syntax: BatchSubstitude.bat OldStr NewStr File
:: OldStr [in] – string to be replaced
:: NewStr [in] – string to replace with
:: File [in] – file to be parsed
if “%*”==”" findstr “^::” “%~f0″&GOTO:EOF
for /f “tokens=1,* delims=]” %%A in (’”type %3|find /n /v “”"‘) do (
set “line=%%B”
if defined line (
call set “line=echo.%%line:%~1=%~2%%”
for /f “delims=” %%X in (’”echo.”%%line%%”"‘) do %%~X
) ELSE echo.
)

2. Save the file as “change.bat”

The above script will parses a file line by line and will replaces a desired substring.

3. Open cmd prompt >> type the following command:

c:\change.bat “text-to-replace” text-to-replace-with c:\FileToEdit.txt > c:\Edited_file.txt

Reply me whether it is working or not?

[kelfro]

Hi, you can check for the script which I have made. This will solve your problem. You can try it as you need a script to edit multiple files. I think batch file will be better solution for you. Try this script. It have the capability to replace all "ABC" in files *.html to "XYZ".

Steps to Follow:

Get a list of .html files.
var str list ; lf -n "*.html" > $list

File loop.
while ($list <> "")
do

Read in the next file.
var str file ; lex "1" $list > $file
var str content ; cat $file > $content

Replace "ABC" to "XYZ".
sal "^ABC^" "XYZ" $coontent > null

Write file back.
echo $content > { echo $file }
done

[Katty]

I don't know how to do this. But find something on internet regarding how to wtite script to edit multiple files? Look at it and check whether it is helping you or not?


var str list ; lf -n "*.html" > $list

while ($list <> "")
do

var str file ; lex "1" $list > $file
var str content ; cat $file > $content

sal "^ABC^" "XYZ" $content > null

echo $content > { echo $file }