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MinutiaeMan
Living the Geeky Dream
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Originally posted by Saltah'na:
Just plain command prompt on Windows. This is supposed to be a batch file that is supposed to run on ANY system[...]

I detect an inherent contradiction in that statement... [Wink]

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Omega
Some other beginning's end
Member # 91

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So you need a command line application that does find and replace. You really do need grep. [Smile]

Perhaps findstr will do?
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/findstr.mspx?mfr=true

Failing that, you can write a Python script and compile to to an executable.

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