Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>The avaiable options to do it are just horrible. There is
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>>edlin, but it
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>>>can't be used for anything serious. Or there is the wonderful
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>>concept of
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>>>writing something in vbscript. But putting vbscript in there doesn't
>>>seem like a very good option.
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>>ActiveState Perl? It's very widely used.
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>Yes, but it's not in there by default.
>If we're going to require a third party tool to be installed, we'd
>probably be better off requiring a simple sed.exe which is a single
>binary instead of the whole perl package which is hundreds of files and
>many megabytes...
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Try this then: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm (almost
a single binary, anyway)
cheers
andrew