On 21 Sep 00 at 11:59, Or Botton wrote: > Can edlin be used to edit text files automaticly? > (example: search text file for keyword 'foo' and replace with > 'bar'.) Yes, by way of a script (I can think of other and easier ways to do my search and replace though <g>) EDLIN myfile.txt. < EDLIN.SCR This is explained in the edlin doc I mentioned. As said this seems to be copied from the Dos 5 manual, except the part about scripts, not found in the DOS 5 manual if memory serves. Copy of this in the mail to you ( and you Eko :) You may want to check the following web sites. *The Friendly Edlin Page! * <http://www.wwwebspace.co.uk/~iskra/edlin/> And: <http://fbox.vt.edu:10021/A/alrobin2/home/edlin/index.html> I remember one or the other of these sites offered one or more ready to go batch files using edlin (in combination with debug :) for search and replace. All the best, Bjorn To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
