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SAR	Search and Replace within files.
JoinText	Joins lines of text within files
ASCII	Prints a simple ASCII chart
strftime	Prints the current time in an arbitary format

Windows Command Line Text Utilities

SAR v1.19

Search And Replace within files - Like Unix grep except can replace text as well.

Syntax: sar search [/r replace] [files...]

Search and replace given text in files (or stdin to stdout). If no replace string is given just search. Saves original files as filename.bak.

/f Fixed strings
/b Backslashed strings, e.g. "multi\nlines"
/x Hex byte strings , e.g."3c 3d 24"
/e Regular expression match (default):



^ start of line $ end of line
. any character \ quote next character
* match zero or more + match one or more
[aeiou0-9] match a, e, i, o, u, and 0 thru 9
[^aeiou0-9] match anything but a, e, i, o, u, and 0 thru 9


/i Ignore case
/I Ignore and preserve case.
/w Whole word matches

/s Recuse sub directories

/p Prompt user for each line replacement
/q Quite - Do not print matches or replacements
/t Print total matches, filenames, line numbers (default)
/? Help summary
/d Print full documentation
/c Continuous mode (not line by line)
/l No end of line translation \n\r <-> \n
/B Binary mode (/l /c and /x)


JoinText v1.0

Joins lines of text within files.

Syntax: jointext [/?] filename1 [/s text] [/t text] [filename2] [/s text] [/t text] ...

Reads files simultaneously, line by line and prints their contents side by side.


Like a line by line version of the Unix command 'cat'.
The same file may be specified multiple times.

/s or // Specifies a string to print.

You can use C style backslash conventions, e.g. \n \t \x32 etc...
Additionally /G for >, /L for <, B for | and /P for %
/t Specifies some literal text, like /s except that backslashes are not expanded.

Example:


foo.txt		bar.txt
everything is connected		custard rules


JoinText foo.txt /s "HELLO" bar.txt /s \tBLA


outputs
everythingHELLOcustard isHELLOrules connectedHELLO	BLA BLA BLA




ASCII v1.0

Prints a simple table of the (PC) ASCII character set

Syntax: ascii


strftime v1.0

Prints the current data and time in the specified format. The format string is passed to the C 'strftime' function.

Syntax: strftime format [codeChar]
Format specifiers:

%a	Abbreviated weekday name
%A	Full weekday name
%b	Abbreviated month name
%B	Full month name
%c	Date and time representation appropriate for locale
%d	Day of month as decimal number (01 - 31)
%H	Hour in 24-hour format (00 - 23)
%I	Hour in 12-hour format (01 - 12)
%j	Day of year as decimal number (001 - 366)
%m	Month as decimal number (01 - 12)
%M	Minute as decimal number (00 - 59)
%p	Current locale’s A.M./P.M. indicator for 12-hour clock
%S	Second as decimal number (00 - 59)
%U	Week of year as decimal number, with Sunday as first day of week (00 - 53)
%w	Weekday as decimal number (0 - 6; Sunday is 0)
%W	Week of year as decimal number, with Monday as first day of week (00 - 53)
%x	Date representation for current locale
%X	Time representation for current locale
%y	Year without century, as decimal number (00 - 99)
%Y	Year with century, as decimal number
%z	Time-zone name or abbreviation; no characters if time zone is unknown
%Z	Time-zone name or abbreviation; no characters if time zone is unknown
%%	Percent sign

Note that the MS-DOS/Windows command interpreter expands %word% into environment variables so an alternative code charater must be used, this is specified as the second arguemnt on the command line.

Example:

strftime "The date is !d !B !Y, the time is !H:!M" !
Outputs:
The date is 24 September 1975, the time is 14:22

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