How to delete a same word out of multiple text files?

[drti]

Hi, I have a bunch of text files, all of these text files contain a same word that you want to remove. Remove a word by going through file by file can be a painful job. Is there anyway that I can remove that word out of all the text files in one shot?

thanks.

 

[Moonbender]

I don't think you can do this with tools delivered with Windows (you certainly could with the tools typically available in a GNU/Linux environment), but I'm sure there are applications made to do exactly that. For instance, a text editor I use, Code-Genie has a Replace in files... function which would do the job.

 

[damiano]

Ultra edit also has the replace in files... just replace "youword" with nothing

 

[singh]

Originally posted by: Moonbender
I don't think you can do this with tools delivered with Windows (you certainly could with the tools typically available in a GNU/Linux environment), but I'm sure there are applications made to do exactly that. For instance, a text editor I use, Code-Genie has a Replace in files... function which would do the job.

You can do it w/ Windows, but certainly not as easy as w/ *nix For instance, you could write a VBScript and use the Windows Scripting host to do it.

The easiest way is to just use one of the programs mentioned in the thread.

 

[Moonbender]

Of course, while we're already programming stuff, he might use a binary editor (or, heck, Notepad!) to create an EXE file from scratch that searches and replaces.
But no, you're right of course, I hadn't thought of using the WSH.