Replacing text in files recursively using windows-CodePudding

So I can change text in a file like this:

(gc file.name) -replace 'Foo', 'Bar' | sc file.name

Now I want to do this for each file in this directory. In DOS I would do:

for %f in (*.*) do (gc %f) -replace 'Foo', 'Bar' | sc %f

I get a helpful message telling me the syntax is wrong, but it doesn't tell me what the right syntax is. I bet someone here can.

CodePudding user response：

You just need Get-ChildItem to get the files in the directory and a loop of your choice, ForEach-Object in this case.

Get-ChildItem path\to\targetDirectory -File | ForEach-Object {
    (Get-Content -LiteralPath $_.FullName -Raw) -replace 'Foo', 'Bar' |
        Set-Content $_.FullName
}

If you want to do this recursively for all files under targetDirectory you would just include -Recurse.

CodePudding user response：

I used:

foreach ($F in dir){ (gc $F) -replace 'Foo', 'Bar' | sc $F }