change text in XML files

[ghostdog74]

that little batch snippet i wrote is all you need to change all xml files under the directory passed using sed. what more is it you require? in fact , i added the for loop only for doing recursive searching, otherwise if your xml files are all in one directory, then  this is all you need.

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sed -i.bak "s/old/new/g" *.xml


[Helpmeh]

Actually, from the looks of that code, it will take all the .xml files from a directory and perform the word switch for each. (But I don't have sed, so ghostdog will need to confirm my thoughts)

[ghostdog74]

Actually, from the looks of that code, it will take all the .xml files from a directory and perform the word switch for each. (But I don't have sed, so ghostdog will need to confirm my thoughts)

see reply 15

[Helpmeh]

see reply 15

Sorry, you must have gotten in right before me, lol...

[greg]

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sed -i.bak "s/old/new/g" *.xml


The above sed does not work. The original xml file remains the same

Example:

C:\batch>type ghost24.bat

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@echo off
Rem The sed change is displayed to the screen only
rem The original xml remains unchanged
echo type envmig.xml
type  envmig.xml

sed  "s/newfile.xml/new/g" envmig.xml

echo type envmig.xml
type  envmig.xml
Output:

C:\batch>ghost24.bat
type envmig.xml
newfile.xml
new
type envmig.xml
newfile.xml
C:\batch>

[ghostdog74]

it remains unchanged because you did not redirect to a new file or use -i.
sed by default doesn't change files.
please look at my code again and compare it to yours. Its totally different. Why do you produce different code and say it does not work. ?

[greg]

it remains unchanged because you did not redirect to a new file or use -i.
sed by default doesn't change files.
please look at my code again and compare it to yours. Its totally different. Why do you produce different code and say it does not work. ?

Ghost,

Thanks for your help.

I must have a different version of sed than you do.

I cannot get my sed to work with your code.


C:\batch>sed -i.bak "s/HKCU/new/g" envmig.xml
Unknown option "-i.bak"
Usage: sed [-nE] [script] [-e script] [-f scriptfile] [file ...]

C:\batch>

______________________________


C:\batch>type   envmig.xml  |  more
<migration urlid="http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/oobeupgrade">

  <component type="System" context="User">
    <displayName>oobeUpgrade</displayName>
    <paths>
      <path type="File">%WINDIR%\oobeUpgrade</path>
    </paths>
    <role role="Settings">

      <rules>
        <detects>
          <detect>
            <condition negation="Yes">MigXmlHelper.IsOSLaterThan("NT","6.0.0.0")
</condition>
          </detect>
        </detects>
        <rules>
          <detects>
            <detect>
              <condition negation="Yes">MigXmlHelper.DoesObjectExist("Registry",
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders [My
Music]")</condition>
            </detect>
            <detect>
              <condition negation="Yes">MigXmlHelper.IsSameStringContent...
.
.
.

[ghostdog74]

why are you using crippled sed?? see reply 13 on where to download GNU sed.  All my *nix tools are from GNU, not mks. and its free..

[greg]

why are you using crippled sed?? see reply 13 on where to download GNU sed.  All my *nix tools are from GNU, not mks. and its free..

Please show me the output for your sed.

sed -i.bak "s/old/new/g" *.xml

[ghostdog74]

it doesn't take 5 minutes to download and try it out yourself.

[greg]

It doesn't take 5 minutes to download and try it out yourself.

The gnu sed did work:
sed -i.bak "s/HKCU/new/g" envmig.xml

The redirection is implicit with -i.bak.  envmig.xml.bak is created in the same directory.  Then envmig.xml.bak  is copied over envmig.xml.  The changes to envmig.xml appear to occur in place.

One line of sed code to replace the long batch file above.

Command line arguments could be used for "old" and "new".  Then the sed
code sed -i.bak "s/old/new/g" would not need to be changed each time.

Output:

C:\batch>c:\bin\sed -i.bak "s/HKCU/new/g" envmig.xml


C:\batch>type  envmig.xml  | more
<migration urlid="http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/oobeupgrade">

  <component type="System" context="User">
    <displayName>oobeUpgrade</displayName>
    <paths>
      <path type="File">%WINDIR%\oobeUpgrade</path>
    </paths>
    <role role="Settings">

      <rules>
        <detects>
          <detect>
            <condition negation="Yes">MigXmlHelper.IsOSLaterThan("NT","6.0.0.0")
</condition>
          </detect>
        </detects>
        <rules>
          <detects>
            <detect>
              <condition negation="Yes">MigXmlHelper.DoesObjectExist("Registry",
"new\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders [My M
usic]")</condition>
            </detect>
            <detect>

Input:

C:\batch>type  envmig.xml |  more
<migration urlid="http://www.microsoft.com/migration/1.0/migxmlext/oobeupgrade">

  <component type="System" context="User">
    <displayName>oobeUpgrade</displayName>
    <paths>
      <path type="File">%WINDIR%\oobeUpgrade</path>
    </paths>
    <role role="Settings">

      <rules>
        <detects>
          <detect>
            <condition negation="Yes">MigXmlHelper.IsOSLaterThan("NT","6.0.0.0")
</condition>
          </detect>
        </detects>
        <rules>
          <detects>
            <detect>
              <condition negation="Yes">MigXmlHelper.DoesObjectExist("Registry",
"HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders [My
Music]")</condition>
            </detect>
            <detect>
              <condition negation="Yes">MigXmlHelper.IsSameStringContent

[Helpmeh]

One line of sed code to replace the long batch file above.

EXACTLY! Ghost said that a the top of the page in reply #15!

[greg]

Actually, from the looks of that code, it will take all the .xml files from a directory and perform the word switch for each. (But I don't have sed, so ghostdog will need to confirm my thoughts)

If Helpmeh does not have have sed then Helpmeh was unable to test the code. Helpmeh doesn't test the code or show output.

Helpmeh wrote: (post #26 )
"EXACTLY! Ghost said that a the top of the page in reply #15!"