How to replace a varying string in a file via .cmd?

Question

Command line

There is a file that contains a fragment HOST='pc-name'
Anything can be used instead of pc-name.
You need to find this fragment and replace it with HOST='%COMPUTERNAME%'
Done through the .cmd file

Answer 1

www.guidingtech.com/2051/find-computer-name-comman...

Answer 2

you are not the only one .
Explicitly or implicitly , you need to use PowerShell. You can also do this:

$file_path=".\temp.txt"
(Get-Content $file_path) -replace "HOST='[\w\-\d]+'", "HOST='%COMPUTERNAME%'" | out-file -encoding ascii $file_path

Answer 3

If you don't want to deploy posh to xp, then take sed from gnuwin32.

Answer 4

Use CHGSTR.EXE