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- These are 2 simple text utilities I find quite handy.
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- filefix is a search and replace utility. It will replace any occurance of a
- string of up to 40 characters with another string. The strings can consist of
- characters or hex values. Wildcards are not supported, it does a literal search
- and replace.
- filefix is not line oriented so it can be used on executable program code as
- well as text files.
- filefix can be used in both a prompt and no prompt mode.
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- Examples:
- 'filefix ?'
- : print instructions and start in prompt mode
- 'filefix'
- : start in prompt mode
- 'filefix test test1 yes no'
- : replace every occurance of 'yes' in file test
- with 'no' in new file test1. test1 is created.
- 'filefix test test1 yes no y'
- : same as above except you are prompted to answer
- 'y' or 'n' for each replacement.
- 'filefix test test1 [0a] [0a][0d]'
- : convert all line feeds to line feed/return
-
- Each run will give you the number of replacements, number of lines and
- characters in the file.
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- slice is useful for taking horizontal slices from a text file. By specifing a
- match word and a number of lines you can get the next x lines after a keyword
- match. This is similar to GREP except you can get several lines to determine
- the context of the match. Again, no wildcard support.
- You can get up to 4 different slices of a text file at one time.
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- Examples:
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- 'slice'
- :print instructions
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- 'slice test test1 if 2'
- :find every occurance of 'if' and print that line and the next 2 lines to a
- new file named test1
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- 'slice test test1 if 2 then 3'
- :print 'if' and the next 2 lines and 'then' and the next 3 lines.
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- Comments are welcome.
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- Donald L. Wahl
-
- CIS 76515,1510
- BIX dwahl
- PLINK ops492
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