Windows batch replace characters

No need to copy files just for a name change. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Murdoch Ripper Murdoch Ripper 2 2 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Cracking bit of code, well done! Thanks Adam. This actually took me about a week to figure out how to do. I have a one-liner on my mac that I used, was hoping for one in Windows. Show 1 more comment. Community Bot 1. Eric Leschinski Eric Leschinski 6, 6 6 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges.

It works great! FolderExists WScript. Unnamed 0 Then Recurse fso. GetFolder WScript. Unnamed 0 Else WScript. Echo "Folder not found. Echo "Please give folder name as argument 1. SubFolders Recurse sf WScript. Echo sf. Replace sf. Files WScript. Another solution would be to use two batch files. Vlad Vlad 11 1 1 bronze badge.

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Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Find centralized, trusted content and collaborate around the technologies you use most. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I did not know this at the time of posting this answer as I assumed this replacement method worked for all input strings.

Otherwise, I will be keeping this answer up for those who need a general, short, one-liner solution to batch string replacements. Another solution to the stated problem is to use a PowerShell replace command within your batch script. To further explain the replace command, the first single quotes is what you are searching for. After the comma, the second set of single quotes contains no value so that the searched object is removed. Another option is to use a caret character to search for everything except for what is identified in the brackets.

This would remove everything we other than want you want to keep. To do that you would replace the second line with:. Look into sed , the stream editor. If you are on Windows assuming you are , you can find precompiled binaries on the web. How are we doing? Please help us improve Stack Overflow. Take our short survey. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Learn more.

Replace character of string in batch script Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 10 months ago. Active 28 days ago. Viewed 58k times. Improve this question. BDM 3, 2 2 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. Jimmy Jimmy 2 2 gold badges 4 4 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.