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Hey everyone.

I have been doing a lot of browsing, and have not been able to find what I want to find.

What I want to do is have a batch on my dekstop that will edit a file with a different directory eg.
'C:\Program Files\example\text_file.txt'.

The above directory is an example of where the text file is.
If the text file contained the text:

"Negative1"
"Negative2"
"Positive1"
"Positive2"
"Negative3"
"Positive3"

I want to change the "Positive" in "Positive2" to a "Negative", inside the text file by running this batch file, however the command can't conflict with other text (eg menus, other commands, and a lot of echoing).

I have used the FIND command to find it, but It doesn't have the option to edit/change.

I also need the option to do it silently.

Can anyone please help, all help is greatly appreciated.

Thanking you all in advance

Shanet



P.S. I want to be able to give this to others who will have the file so I dont want to have to use third party software or anything. Thanks for the responses!

Shanet

download sed for windows at gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm, then put this in your batch file

Many Thanks to Ghostmachine4.

I am wondering - I want to convert it to an exe file with bat2exe - If I include the 'sed' file, will it work on other computers?
eg
If I email this file to my friend to help him with a problem, will it run or will he need the 'sed' file.
if he needs the 'sed' file, will he need to install it or does it run as a stand alone, in which case I can ind it to this file?

Many Thanks
Shanet

Thanks !k.

Im sorry for my thickness, but could you please explain this a bit more in depthly? I dont understand what you are doing?

Thanks
Shanet

shanet wrote:Many Thanks to Ghostmachine4.

I am wondering - I want to convert it to an exe file with bat2exe - If I include the 'sed' file, will it work on other computers?
eg
If I email this file to my friend to help him with a problem, will it run or will he need the 'sed' file.
if he needs the 'sed' file, will he need to install it or does it run as a stand alone, in which case I can ind it to this file?

Many Thanks
Shanet

there's no need to convert to exe. sed.exe is just one executable, so you can put in thumb drive , or just zip together with your batch and email your friend.

there's no need to convert to exe. sed.exe is just one executable, so you can put in thumb drive , or just zip together with your batch and email your friend.

Again, thanks to Ghostmachine4 for your help, however, I would like to keep it to one file. I will try the answer posted by !k, if that doesnt work, I will get in touch.

Thanks for your time,

Shanet

Great! Got it and it works. Thanks !k for the script!

Shanet

All good, but I actually have it as follows:

Negative
Negative
Positive
Positive
Negative
Positive

I put the numbers there to make it easier... sorry


my bad

can any1 help plz?

Thanks,

Shanet

I used this and it worked ok.

However, I have all this information that it destroys.


Lets get to another example, as all this information is a bit private (sorry for being really rude to u guys)

This file starts off being:

Line1
Line2
Line3
Line4
Line5
Line6
Line7
Line8

Line9
Line10
Line11

Line12
Line13
Line14

Line15
Line16
Line17

line18

Line19

etc...

I want Line 13 to change to say '13th line' (or whatever), but I want all the other information left alone. However with the code !k has iven me, it ends up as either of the following:

Line1

or


Line19

All I want to do is edit 1 bit of this without harming the rest. Is it even possible?

Thankyou all for your time.

Shanet

Is there any way to only make it look at line 13???


Shanet

Important!
Empty lines are ignored and not written to the output.
If the text includes special characters, for example &|()<>, need to take action on their screening.