Powershell script to remove text from each file in a directory.
*In Linux-Unix SED works very well for this.
POWERSHELL “Sed like”
Using variables to recurse a directory cheating using set-content to work like
regular expression
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | #remove a character from all files in a directory -= #REMOVE#var old is text to remove $old = ','#var $new = the text you want to replace ( I am replacing text with# a blank space)$new = ''#change the Get-ChildItem to a folder or your choiceGet-ChildItem C:\scripts\files\ -Recurse | Where {$_ -IS [IO.FileInfo]} |% {(Get-Content $_.FullName) -replace $old,$new | Set-Content $_.FullName Write-Host "----- WORKING ----------" Write-Host "Processed: " + $_.FullName} #REMOVE DONE |
—– WORKING ———-
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\file1.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt-159_2-5.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\extf\ile0_0_140-159_6-10.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\extftxt60-179_11-15.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\extftxt60-179_2-5.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\extftxt60-179_6-10.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt122-188_11-15.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt122-188_2-5.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt122-188_6-10.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt120-139_11-15.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt120-139_2-5.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt120-139_6-10.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt140-159_11-15.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt140-159_2-5.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt140-159_6-10.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt160-179_11-15.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt160-179_2-5.txt
Processed: + c:\scripts\files\txt160-179_6-10.txt
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