Re: Massive Search and replace.

Matt Carter <MLCarter1976(NOSPAM)@yahoo.com> wrote:

Do you think (thinking out loud...could be dangerous!) that I could do a
batch file to rename things on my system that have the word resevoir in them
to reservoir!?

In Unix or Linux, you could use the sed program with a tiny script.
That's helped out by the Unix/Linux shell's ability to expand a
wildcard on the command line into a list of files and feed them in to
the program.

Also, any such program would work only for character files. Word
files, Excel files, any other non-plain text files could get
hopelessly screwed up if you ran something like this on them.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@xxxxxxx
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