Is there any sed like utility for cmd exe

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I want to programmatically edit file content using windows command line  cmd exe   In  nix there is sed for this tasks  Is there any useful native equivalent in windows

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sed  and its ilk  are contained within several packages of Unix commands     Cygwin works but is gigantic  UnxUtils is much slimmer  GnuWin32 is another port that works  Another alternative is AT amp T Research s UWIN system  MSYS from MinGw is yet another option  Windows Subsystem for Linux is a most  native  option  but it s not installed on Windows by default  it has sed  grep etc  out of the box  though  https   github com mbuilov sed-windows offers recent 4 3 and 4 4 versions  which support -z option unlike listed upper ports   If you don t want to install anything and your system ain t a Windows Server one  then you could use a scripting language  VBScript e g   for that  Below is a gross  off-the-cuff stab at it  Your command line would look like  cscript   NoLogo sed vbs s  oldpat   newpat    lt  inpfile txt  gt  outfile txt   where oldpat and newpat are Microsoft vbscript regex patterns  Obviously I ve only implemented the substitute command and assumed some things  but you could flesh it out to be smarter and understand more of the sed command-line   Dim pat  patparts  rxp  inp pat   WScript Arguments 0  patparts   Split pat      Set rxp   new RegExp rxp Global   True rxp Multiline   False rxp Pattern   patparts 1  Do While Not WScript StdIn AtEndOfStream   inp   WScript StdIn ReadLine     WScript Echo rxp Replace inp  patparts 2   Loop

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You could try powershell  There are get-content and set-content commandlets build in that you could use

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As far as I know nothing like sed is bundled with windows  However  sed is available for Windows in several different forms  including as part of Cygwin  if you want a full POSIX subsystem  or as a Win32 native executable if you want to run just sed on the command line   Sed for Windows  GnuWin32 Project   If it needs to be native to Windows then the only other thing I can suggest would be to use a scripting language supported by Windows without add-ons  such as VBScript

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UnxUtils provides sed for Win32  as does GNUWin32

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I needed a sed tool that worked for the Windows cmd exe prompt  Eric Pement s port of sed to a single DOS  exe worked great for me   It s pretty well documented

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There is a helper batch file for Windows called repl bat which has much of the ability of SED but doesn t require any additional download or installation   It is a hybrid batch file that uses Jscript to implement the features and so is swift  and doesn t suffer from the usual poison characters of batch processing and handles blank lines with ease   Download repl from - https   www dropbox com s qidqwztmetbvklt repl bat  The author is  dbenham from stack overflow and dostips com  Another helper batch file called findrepl bat gives the Windows user much of the capabilty of GREP and is also based on Jscript and is likewise a hybrid batch file  It shares the benefits of repl bat  Download findrepl from - https   www dropbox com s rfdldmcb6vwi9xc findrepl bat  The author is  aacini from stack overflow and dostips com

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Try fart exe  It s a Find-and-replace-text utility that can be used in command batch programs   http   sourceforge net projects fart-it

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I use Cygwin  I run into a lot of people that do not realize that if you put the Cygwin binaries on your PATH  you can use them from within the Windows Command shell  You do not have to run Cygwin s Bash   You might also look into Windows Services for Unix available from Microsoft  but only on the Professional and above versions of Windows

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If you don t want to install anything  I assume you want to add the script into some solution program etc that will be run in other machines   you could try creating a vbs script  lets say  replace vbs    Const ForReading   1 Const ForWriting   2  strFileName   Wscript Arguments 0  strOldText   Wscript Arguments 1  strNewText   Wscript Arguments 2   Set objFSO   CreateObject  Scripting FileSystemObject   Set objFile   objFSO OpenTextFile strFileName  ForReading   strText   objFile ReadAll objFile Close strNewText   Replace strText  strOldText  strNewText   Set objFile   objFSO OpenTextFile strFileName  ForWriting  objFile Write strNewText objFile Close   And you run it like this   cscript replace vbs  C  One txt   Robert   Rob    Which is similar to the sed version provided by  bill weaver   but I think this one is more friendly in terms of special       lt      characters   Btw  I didn t write this  but I can t recall where I got it from

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edlin or edit  plus there is Windows Services for Unix which comes with many unix tools for windows  http   technet microsoft com en-us interopmigration bb380242 aspx  Update 12 7 12 In Windows 2003 R2  Windows 7  amp  Server 2008  etc  the above is replaced by the Subsystem for UNIX-Based Applications  SUA  as an add-on  But you have to download the utilities   http   www microsoft com en-us download details aspx id 2391

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You could install Cygwin  http   www cygwin com   and use sed from there

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You could look at GNU Tools  they provide  amongst other things  sed on windows

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Today powershell saved me   For grep there is   get-content somefile txt   where      -match  expression     or  select-string somefile txt -pattern  expression    and for sed there is   get-content somefile txt        -replace  expression   replace     For more detail see Zain Naboulsis blog entry

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gt   Get-content file txt    Foreach-Object     -replace   SourceRegexp     DestinationString     Set-Content file txt   This is behaviour of  sed -i  s  SourceRegexp  DestinationString g  file txt

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There is Super Sed an enhanced version of sed  For Windows this is a standalone  exe  intended for running from the command line

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Cygwin works  but these utilities are also available   Just plop them on your drive  put the directory into your path  and you have many of your friendly unix utilities   Lighterweight IMHO that Cygwin  although that works just as well

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