Resolved Passing variable from BAT file through sed?

Hi,

This is an example of what i'm looking to do:

ECHO Please enter a number here, we'll use it later
[user types 100 and presses Enter]
[100 is stored as, let's say a variable "NumVar"]
sed s/###/NumVar/ oldfile > newfile

So basically the user is prompted via DOS .batch file commands to enter a value, the value is stored and then passed to sed as a string - the string being used as the "new text" sed will use when parsing and modifying the file.

Is this possible?

 

A clearer example:

ECHO What day is it today?
Tuesday
%StringVariable=Tuesday
sed s/today/%StringVariable/ dailyreport.txt > dailyreportnew.txt


Which would replace all instances of "today" with "Tuesday" within the target text file.

 

A while since I done batch files Sduibek but from what I recall you'll need to use choice, ergo the user can't type anything random but can select from a menu.

As I said though, it's been a while, perhaps things have changed now but to be honest if you need that kind of user interaction a more suitable language would probably be a better option.

 

Fair enough. My first thought was VBScript or the ''Windows Script'' but the problem is I need this to work in Windows 7 and Windows Vista as well. Would those impose restrictions on vbs/ws running on non-Admin user accounts? I don't have those OSes personally but I know that they tend to be overzealous on security

 

Depending on what you're trying to do but the worst case scenario would be UAC popping up asking to confirm. Obviously if you try anything that requires Admin privileges it wouldn't matter what development platform is in use, the user still must have rights or admin sets the rights for the software.