Re: [tlug] Replacing text in multiple files - under Windows :(

[Ian Barwick <barwick@example.com>]

2009/7/29 Martin Killmann <martin@example.com>:
> TLUG,
>
> I have a fairly standard task, several hundred .html files where I need
> to do some simple text replacements with basic regular expressions.
>
> Now, under Linux, this would be done in 5 minutes with board tools, but
> scrapping my company PC at work and installing a decent OS is not an
> option right now, so I need to do this under Windows XP. Does someone
> here know a decent, easy to use Windows tool that can do text
> replacements across multiple files?
>
> I've tried a dozen programs I found on download.com and the best tool I
> found was something called Textcrawler, which is free and does what I
> need but is too buggy to use (i.e. it leaves crap characters across
> files, and the cleanup takes more time than replacing by hand).
> Yes, I could use Dreamweaver, but a small, fast, dedicated tool for the
> job would be nicer.

Err, how about sed?

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm


Ian Barwick