Batch file to do a token replacement on a text file, in Windows.

tokenReplace.bat

@echo off
rem sourced from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5273937/how-to-replace-substrings-in-windows-batch-file
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set INTEXTFILE=test.txt
set OUTTEXTFILE=test_out.txt
set SEARCHTEXT=bath
set REPLACETEXT=hello
set OUTPUTLINE=

for /f "tokens=1,* delims=¶" %%A in ( '"type %INTEXTFILE%"') do (
SET string=%%A
SET modified=!string:%SEARCHTEXT%=%REPLACETEXT%!

echo !modified! >> %OUTTEXTFILE%
)
del %INTEXTFILE%
rename %OUTTEXTFILE% %INTEXTFILE%

Very useful script - thanks for sharing.