Question

In a list of textfiles I need to replace a token with the name of the file.

Is there an easy way to do this? The prefered tool for me would be notepad++, but grep, python, powershell or other other ways are also ok. I work on windows.

Example:

filenames

contact.aspx

default.aspx

content first file

Hallo <%= Html.Resource(“Title”) %>

content second file

Whats up <%= Html.Resource(“Title”) %>

The required result is:

first file

Hallo <%= Resource.contact_aspx.Title %>

second file

Whats up <%= Resource.default_aspx.Title %>

I dont need the complete solution here: just the part that lets me use the filename in a replace statement would get me started.

Answer 1

Here’s a solution in Powershell:

(Get-Content -Path contact.aspx) -replace '(Hallo\s?<%=\s?)(.+?)(\s?%>)', '$1Resource.contact_aspx.Title$3' | Set-Content -Path contact.aspx

(Get-Content -Path default.aspx) -replace '(Whats\s?up\s?<%=\s?)(.+?)(\s?%>)', '$1Resource.default_aspx.Title$3' | Set-Content -Path default.aspx