Question

I am trying to write a windows batch script that it will search until

Example:

example1
example2
example3
example4
    <jar href="example.jar" main="true"/>

So i want to replace first part until ( <jar href ) of the text with another text.
I mean the first the first 4 lines will be replaces with another text.
Is there any find until and replace method in batch script.

Answer 1

Your specific scenario is fairly easy to implement in batch. I’m assuming you want to preserve the entire line that contains <jar href

You don’t say where the replacement text is coming from. I’m assuming it comes from another file.

@echo off
set file1="test.txt"
set file2="replacement.txt"
set output="new.txt"

for /f "delims=:" %%N in ('findstr /n /c:"<jar href" %file1%') do (
  set /a skip=%%N-1
  goto :break
)
:break
(
  type %file2%
  more +%skip% %file1%
)>%output%