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POCMD/BATCH Programming - File content search and file content amendment
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    copied!<p>I have a requirement to generate a simple .BAT script/file. I assumed it to be easy but how wrong I was :-(</p> <p>The BAT script has to (I believe):</p> <ol> <li>Take a const searchstring to search for</li> <li>Take an absolute folder path to a "start" directory</li> <li>Take a filename mask/regular expression to search for </li> <li>Take a const string to be "appended" to the content of the file</li> <li>Recursively iterate through all files in the start directory and subdirectories (n level down) searching (and "processing") any files that match the filename mask/regular expression</li> <li>Search the content of the "current" file (all "are text" files that can be opened in NOTEPAD), for the searchstring. The searchstring may be found 0, 1 or many times anywhere in the file.</li> <li>If searchstring is found, then do nothing. If the searchstring is not found then append the new string to the end of the file. Voila! (in theory)</li> </ol> <p>Heres what I have already, not really working. I have several problems that I can see. How to get the "current file" and possibly also how to "reset" the ERRORLEVEL after each file.</p> <pre><code>SET SEARCHSTRING="search for this text" SET STARTPATH="C:\StartFolder\*" SET MATCHFILES="*.txt" SET APPENDSTRING="Appended text" findstr /c:%SEARCHSTRING% /b /i /d:%STARTPATH% %MATCHFILES% SET FOUND=%ERRORLEVEL% REM 0=true, 1=false IF %FOUND%==1 ( REM ISSUE: How to get "current" file path??? REM %APPENDSTRING% &gt;&gt; %CURRENTFILEPATH% ) </code></pre> <p>Any questions/suggestions more than welcome</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>kyle </p>
 

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