Replace Text Multiple Files in Batch

A sample batch file to run SED (search the Scribble Web for links to a Dos version) on many files and save the output to a new folder. Note that this basic batch command set is useful for running any single command against every file in a folder.

This code apparently requires Windows NT/2K/XP.
FWIW, this sample makes a new copy of a bunch of .html files into a new folder and replaces all occurrences of the "ZH-CH" font encoding declaration with an English substitute (which works, because it's all miscellaneous formatting like spaces and commas, not words and characters!)

REM @echo off

REM from http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/MSDOS/Q_20737160.html
REM set scriptfile={Put the name of your perl script here right after the "=" and with no braces}

REM set movepath={Put the directory path you want to move the files to here after the "=" and with no braces!}
set movepath=e:\esi2\htm\new

for %%f in (*.html) do (
REM %scriptfile% %%f
sed -e s/ZH-CN/EN-US/g %%f > %movepath%\%%f
REM move %%f %movepath%
)

REM for %%v in (scriptfile movepath) set %%v=

tags: sed, bulk, edit, files, all, loop, batch