Change

wschreiber Micro Focus Employee

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over 16 years ago

Change.exe allows you to do bulk changes in single or multiple files. You can do search and replace, automatic or interactive, and apply various include/exclude criteria.

Syntax:

CHANGE <filespec> /find= [options]

Each change will be shown and must be confirmed on the screen.

Pathnames and wildcards in filename are allowed.

Options:

Optional parameters are:

/replace=yyy : replacement text

/u : ignore upper/lower cases

/noconfirm : replace without confirmation

/silent : replace without confirmation or display

/verbose : verbose - display unchanged lines

/sub : recurse through subdirectories

/blanks : use '_' to represent blanks in command line

/quiet : quiet: do not display current file name

/include=xxx : replace only if line contains xxx

/exclude=xxx : replace only if line does not contain xxx

/Pinclude=xxx : replace only if page contains xxx

/Pexclude=xxx : replace only if page does not contain xxx

Options are not case-sensitive and entered in any order.

They may be appreviated as long as kept identifiable

Place Holders:

Optional Place Holders:

#CR : CRLF

#TAB: tabulator

#-#:empty string

#PERC:'%' character (may be req'ed in batch jobs)

#QUOTE: '"' character

#EOL: End of line

#BOL: Begin of line

#TIME:current time

#DATE:current date

#PATH:path name

#FILE:file name

#LINE:line number

#COUNT: incremental counter (start: 1)

Examples:

CHANGE P:SUB\*.DOC /Find=IBM /Repl=Novell /u

CHANGE ABC.TXT /Find=IBM /Repl="" /n /i /w

CHANGE ABC.TXT /F="This one" /Excl="That one" /s

CHANGE ABC.TXT /F=This_one /R=That_one /w /b

CHANGE *.TXT /F=today /R=#DATE /s

CHANGE *.TXT /F=good /R=evil /pinc=Microsoft

Restrictions: You need sufficient rights and disk space

Blanks in strings must be quoted or represented by '_'

Only ASCII text files are allowed

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