File content transformation tool

[Phil Harding]

Anyone know of any tools around which can perform file content transformation based on token replacement; i.e. process "*.ext" and replace these tokens with these values

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[James R Twine]

I am not certain, having not touched anything U*nix-ish in a while, but I think that (GNU) SED[^] was designed for things like that.  You can also see Here[^] for a non-GNU-specific site. Edit:    From the One Liners Page[^]

substitute (find and replace) "foo" with "bar" on each line

sed 's/foo/bar/' # replaces only 1st instance in a line
sed 's/foo/bar/4' # replaces only 4th instance in a line
sed 's/foo/bar/g' # replaces ALL instances in a line
sed 's/\(.*\)foo\(.*foo\)/\1bar\2/' # replace the next-to-last case
sed 's/\(.*\)foo/\1bar/' # replace only the last case

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[Ed Poore]

Well your a programmer so... :rolleyes:  I've just got a couple of my own C# scripts to do this for me. Otherwise ls -> grep -> mv -> whatever. ;P Ps, you can download native Windows versions of these from gnuwin32[^]

[Rocky Moore]

Not quite sure what you mean by tokens and values. If you are looking for a search and replace on specific file types, VS does that..

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