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Wow, people on this forum really work hard to solve problems diligently. That's just great. This is a very helpful forum. I thought I add my little bit of help. When faced with text files that have special characters (commas, colons, quotes, double quotes, exclaimation marks, tabs, etc.) that are so...

This requires regular expressions. For this, you need biterscripting in Windows. Download it from any free download website. Enter this command in biterscripting. stex -r -c "^,project,^" " project projectile myproject" You will see the results. -r means regular expression. -c me...

Here is one possible script. I have assumed that your input file is at C:/xyz.xml. # Script FAR.txt var str content, value cat "C:/xyz.xml" > $content sal -r -c "^<propname name=\"Group.duration\>&</propname\>^" ("^<propname name=\"Group.duration\>"+$value...

# Script ReplaceWords.txt var string list, line, word1, word2, content cat "C:/test/destin.txt" > $content ; cat "C:/test/string.txt" > $list lex "1" $list > $line while ($line <> "") do wex "1" $line > $word1 ; wex "1" $line > $word2 echo...

Try a script like this - http://www.biterscripting.com/helppages ... pload.html .

It doesn't do exactly what you are attempting to do. But it will give an idea of how to loop thru files within an FTP session from a batch script.

I think Jeb provided an excellent response. If you want to do more fancy automated editing, you may want to consider these commands. m I was unsure if you wanted to remove the entire html tags or just wanted to manipulate only some characters. If you want to remove the html tags (convert html source...

Possible alternative. Can also use a script like http://www.biterscripting.com/SS_FTPUpload.html .

Hello. This script will watch for .jpg files in folder "C:\batch" and open the new .jpg files. I have added comments so you can see what the script is doing. # Script NewJpg.txt var str newList, prevList, newFile cd "C:\batch" while (true) do # Collect the new list of .jpg files....

I doubt if I am a pro, but here is a solution anyway using biterscripting. To search for a file lf -r -n -g "*example*" "C:/somefolder" will show all files matching the pattern "example*" under the folder tree at "C:/somefolder". To search for a string within ...

Nice site. Lots of helpful people. Lots of answers. Anyway, back to the point. Being a teacher, I will take a theoretical approach. You have a few things going on here when comparing files. - File content the same ? - File exists or not ? - File empty or not ? ( I will generalize - Size the same ? )...

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Parsing a file, extracting contents, and calculating time differences - I had to take this challenge. Here is a script - I have added tons of comments so you can follow the logic. # Script Check.txt var str content, line, time, currenttime, timediff day, month, year # Get current time set $currentti...

I was asked this question. I am posting an answer here in case others have this same question and are looking for a solution. Here is the original question (reworded). I administer several computers. I have to run a batch script on each one of them. This batch script is in file C:\EODProcessing.bat....

Wouldn't the < work in DOS ? Such as type < "C:\myfile.txt" or myscript.bat < "C:\myfile.txt" This is called INPUT REDIRECTION - sending the contents of a file to a command or a script. You may also consider using biterscripting if that's an option ( m ) - here is an example of s...

# Script ip.txt var str text ; cat "C:/folder/file.txt" > $text while ( { sen -r -c "^Host&\n^" $text } > 0 ) do var str ip ; stex -r -c "^Host&\n^" $text > $ip stex -r "]^(0>9)^" $ip > null ; stex -r "^(0>9)^l]&...