Shell Programming and Scripting

hello people

Please tell me the Windows equivalent for the SED command used in the UNIX shell scripts. In Unix this command is used to replace a string by another in a file.


Thanks in Advance!

You can install cygwin (Google for it) - it has sed as one of it's packages. You can do much more with sed, as a side note.
A decade ago I remember there was a Windows NT4 Resource Kit which had some Unix tools in it. Not sure if a similar package from Microsoft still exists today.

hi zaxxon

Thanks mate for your prompt reply and vivid information. But teh case is a bit complictaed man, i cannot install anything from my own as i m wrking on client server. If possible can you please suggest some other remedy for the same.


PS: Actually a batch file is running successfully in UNIX and now that server is retiring. The new server is in Win so i need all this info.

Please state the exact version of M$ Windows and post the piece of unix script.

hi methyl
its MS Windows - 2003 Service Pack 1

and here is the string sample:

sed "s/a/A/g" file1 > file2

why dont use cscript (vb)? its default supported on all Windows versions from 2003 if I recall correct

hi necron

thanks for your input mate. The thing is that i cannot make this decision nor can suggest. You can say that its a kinda order which i have to follow and create batch files only.