[ACCEPTED]-Powershell or Batch: find and replace characters-replace
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This should take care of it, using Powershell. This 10 can be done with straight cmd.exe stuff and some 9 built-in Windows executables, but it would 8 be far uglier and more difficult to comprehend.
It 7 will read in some file, and on each line:
- replace
[witha - replace
]witho - replace
|withu
The 6 escapes are needed since [, ], and | are all 5 special characters in powershell, and the 4 backtick ` is used to word-wrap commands.
$filename="textfile.txt"
$outputfile="$filename" + ".out"
Get-Content $filename | Foreach-object {
$_ -replace '\[', 'a' `
-replace '\]', 'o' `
-replace '\|', 'u'
} | Set-Content $outputfile
If 3 you want to process a list of files, you 2 could set up an array to do this, and run 1 through the array.
$filenames = @("/path/to/File1.txt", "file2.txt", "file3.txt")
foreach ($file in $filenames) {
$outfile = "$file" + ".out"
Get-Content $file | Foreach-object {
$_ -replace '\[', 'a' `
-replace '\]', 'o' `
-replace '\|', 'u'
} | Set-Content $outfile
}
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