Re: Simple find and replace

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"Bob Altman" <rda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Okey dokey... looks like my problem statement could use a little tweak.
| Let's try this:
|
| Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do the same "find
and
| replace" operation on a bunch of files (a-la grep)?
|
| BTW, it turns out that I can use Visual Studio to do this (find all
| instances of a string in all files that match a wildcard specification,
and
| replace with another string), but I'm still curious if anything like this
is
| baked into Windows somewhere...
|
| - Bob
|
| "Bob I" <birelan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
| news:ed4pvQXzHHA.3772@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Open said file in Notepad, and have at it.
| >
| > Bob Altman wrote:
| >> Is there anything baked into Windows that will let me do a simple "find
| >> and replace" operation on strings in text files?
| >>
| >> TIA - Bob
| >
|
|


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