topic Re: Date search/Replace in bulk files in Operating System - Microsoft

Date search/Replace in bulk files

Ashwin_4 — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 01:07:18 GMT

Hi Masters,
I have 1000 rtf file where i want to change date from 10/07/2006 to 31/07/2006.

How to do this bulk change? kinly help.

Re: Date search/Replace in bulk files

Phil.Howell — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:43:59 GMT

get sed from
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Phil

Re: Date search/Replace in bulk files

Michael Maher — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:38:45 GMT

Ashwin this example may help.

Source.txt (Contains three lines below)
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10/07/2006 This is sample text
10/07/2006 This is sample text
10/07/2006 This is sample text

Replacer.cmd (Batch file with a single line of script)
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for /f "tokens=1,* delims= " %%i in (C:\source.txt) do @echo 31/07/2006 %%j >>out.txt

The result will be in out.txt
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31/07/2006 This is sample text
31/07/2006 This is sample text
31/07/2006 This is sample text