[thelist] Fastest Search and Replace

GregHolmes at aol.com GregHolmes at aol.com
Fri Jul 19 15:16:00 CDT 2002


"Joshua Olson" <joshua at waetech.com> wrote:

>I was hoping somebody would present a DOS utility of
>some sort, or a windows app, that is specially designed for
>massive search and replaces... I don't need to actually edit
>the file above and beyond doing the replace.  All editors
>that's I've encountered so far are hanging up on the huge
>files.

Have you tried a DOS/Windows version of sed?  That's
it's job.  I'm not _positive_ it can handle files that large,
but I'd be shocked if it couldn't.

Cygwin has one built in of course, but I know there are
native DOS and Windows versions floating around out there ...

Greg Holmes
gregholmes at aol.com



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