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Delete text in .txt files with dos

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Name: bulleke
Date: April 8, 2005 at 05:30:20 Pacific
Subject: Delete text in .txt files with dos
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: 128 MB

Comment:

How can I delete "sheep" in a text file and put "horse" in it's place
ps: sheep is always the first word in every line, so you could delete the word sheep and put horse in the beginning of evey line

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Response Number 1

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: April 8, 2005 at 06:47:38 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Most word processors have a 'search & replace' capability.
Are you looking for a 'program' solution?

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Response Number 2

Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: April 8, 2005 at 06:50:03 Pacific

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ooops,
I just re-read your post. You want to do it in DOS.
No straightforward way that I know if in DOS. It will take a 3rd party utility.
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Response Number 3

Name: IVO
Date: April 8, 2005 at 07:20:23 Pacific

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If "in DOS" means Win XP/2K prompt, as I suspect, that can be achieved by For /F statement. Something as
For /F "tokens=1*" %%A in (Text_File) Do (
Echo horse %%B >> New_Text_File)
Move New_Text_File Text_File /Y
but you get a solution only if you can understand it.

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Response Number 4

Name: FishMonger
Date: April 8, 2005 at 08:52:07 Pacific

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It would be a lot more efficient if you use any one of a number of scripting languages other than a DOS batch file. My personal preference would be Perl. This Perl command will do an inline edit of the file and create a backup copy of the original file.
Perl –pi.bak -e “s/^sheep/horse/;” file.txt

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