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Posted: **Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:39 pm**

I've got some ini files scattered around the PCs in my lab (mostly XP32, but some Vista and some Win7) that I want to search and replace a single text string of to configure one of our Simulations remotely (we have another app already written that can send the necessary data to each remote station.

Anyway, I found this DOS bat file on line (BatchSubstitute.bat):

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@echo off
REM -- Prepare the Command Processor --
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS
SETLOCAL DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

::BatchSubstitude - parses a File line by line and replaces a substring"
::syntax: BatchSubstitude.bat OldStr NewStr File
::          OldStr [in] - string to be replaced
::          NewStr [in] - string to replace with
::          File   [in] - file to be parsed
:$changed 20100115
:$source http://www.dostips.com
if "%~1"=="" findstr "^::" "%~f0"&GOTO:EOF
for /f "tokens=1,* delims=]" %%A in ('"type %3|find /n /v """') do (
    set "line=%%B"
    if defined line (
        call set "line=echo.%%line:%~1=%~2%%"
        for /f "delims=" %%X in ('"echo."%%line%%""') do %%~X
    ) ELSE echo.
)

and this is the file I want to change (crewstation.ini):

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[AR]
Enable=0

[BoscombeSSEL]
Easting=584606
Heading=38
Height=130
Northing=5665201

[Cloud]
Height=2000.000000
State=1

[DetonationIndicator]
OnEntity=0
Size=2.000000
State=1
Texture=C:\SSEL-APPS\data\effects\crater.tga
TimeOut=10.000000

[Display]
Screen=0

[Effects]
Flames=1.000000
Smoke=10.000000

[Environment]
EntityCollision=1
FriendlyVulnerabilty=0
GroundClamp=1
HeightFactor=48
ModelMap=C:\SSEL-APPS\data\vehicles\RMASmodelMap.mm
SmoothMovement=1
Terrain=Nevada2006
TerrainCollision=1
TerrainFile=C:\SSEL-APPS\data\terrain\Nevada2006\nevada2006-14-220-e.ive

[Fog]
Back=6000
Blue=255
Front=1000
Green=191
Red=191
State=1

[Jakarta]
Easting=698820
Heading=142
Height=37
Northing=-687327

[Lighting]
AmbientBlue=233
AmbientGreen=233
AmbientRed=233
Azimuth=0
Elevation=60
LightBlue=255
LightGreen=255
LightRed=255

[Local]
Application=203
Associate=0
Dynamics=TrackedVehicle
Entity=100
Forces=1
Marking=T1
Platform=Challenger
Site=155
UsePosition=1

But if I type (for testing)

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BatchSubstitute.bat Challenger Challenger3M crewstation.ini

I get each line of the file parsed in the DOS window and "Challenger" appears to become "Challenger3M" but when I exam the actually .ini file the substitution has not occurred.

Any help, thoughts, or alternatives much appreciated.

DH

Posted: **Tue Jun 01, 2010 5:20 pm**

DaddyHoggy wrote:
But if I type (for testing)
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BatchSubstitute.bat Challenger Challenger3M crewstation.ini
I get each line of the file parsed in the DOS window and "Challenger" appears to become "Challenger3M" but when I exam the actually .ini file the substitution has not occurred.

Any help, thoughts, or alternatives much appreciated.

DH

Try:

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BatchSubstitute.bat Challenger Challenger3M crewstation.ini > newcrewstation.ini

If that works for you, then just add a 'delete old and rename new' bit to the batch file.

Alternatively, a quick search via Google seemed to indicate that there are plenty of GUI utilities around which could do the job.

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