I have often wondered why windows has such a limited set of commands for an Enterprise product. 2009/5/15 Michael Garfield Sørensen <mgs@xxxxxxxx> > > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm = Sed for Windows > > Works like a charm: > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] > (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. > > C:\>type sample.sql > REM SELECT * FROM DUAL; > > > C:\>which sed > C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\sed.EXE > > C:\>sed "s/REM //" sample.sql > SELECT * FROM DUAL; > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > HTH > Michael Garfield Sørensen, CeDeT > > > > Quoting Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>: > > sed is a unix command line tool. You can get various replacements using >> cygwin or others - if sed is a gnu utility there will likely be a windows >> binary for it, or you can reformulate your problem as a business problem >> rather than a technology issue - for example I need to remove all >> occurrences of a string from a file, preferably using the command line. >> I'd >> just use ctrl-h in write to do string replacement in a text file fwiw. >> >> Niall >> >> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Mohammed Mehraj hussain < >> mhdmehraj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> hi all , >>> >>> i need to format a file using the sed command on windows . >>> >>> For example iam running this command in my comman prompt of win xp. >>> >>> D:\sample> sed "s/REM //" sample.sql >>> >>> 'sed' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >>> operable program or batch file. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Niall Litchfield >> Oracle DBA >> http://www.orawin.info >> >> > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Howard A. Latham