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Find a set of djgpp converted unix tools that run in dos

Harekiet wrote:

Find a set of djgpp converted unix tools that run in dos

that was the easy part, but I am confused about what part of the djgpp does what I want 😢 😕

keropi wrote:

that was the easy part, but I am confused about what part of the djgpp does what I want 😢 😕

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Sorry for the nerd joke, but I couldn't resist... 😉

grep, awk and sed are useful tools for searching/replacing strings in files.

🤣 nice, let's see IF I can work with them , since on wikipedia I seeonly sed might do the job but looks complicated 🤑 🤑 🤑

If you can find Win32 console utilities to do what you want, you can use them in DOS (provided you've got a 32-bit CPU to work with) using Japheth's HX extender.

I am only interested in a dos-only solution that does not need any kind of extenders... I am reading on sed and it's DOS versions here: http://www.cornerstonemag.com/sed/ but frankly it seems too much complicated for the small/simple use I plan for it... line buffers , operations and all are great , but for more complex jobs...

edit:

I think I found what I need , it is called MiniTrue and from the manual it looks promising:

Example 1 - The original MiniTrue

mtr -rnw * - Eastasia = Eurasia

This will replace all instances of "Eastasia" with "Eurasia" in all
files on the current drive. The -r option is necessary for scanning
to recurse through the subdirectories. The -n option will make
replacements automatically, and the -w option will only find whole
words

edit2: complete success! minitrue 2.02b does EXACTLY and easily the job 😁 anyone interested can grab it here: http://www.idiotsdelight.net/minitrue/
thanks for all the suggestions/pointers/help , if it wasn's for the djgpp/grer/sed/xyz stuff I would have never found about minitrue 😊