Recently I ran into an issue where I needed to edit a large number of dtsConfig xml files.  I thought there was an option in the windows operating system to perform a find and replace across multiple files, but alas I can't find it...

Than I remember a vb script I had hobbled together from several other people to do this.  There are several share ware, free ware and other programs to do this, but I really think that find and replace is so basic of a task that it should be easy to kick out...

So here it is, remember that vbs files are a security issue when downloading from the internet, so i've uploaded them with a .txt extension.  Rename it to .vbs.  There are two programs, a replace.vbs and Replace_in_All_files.vbs.  The latter is the one that you must edit with the directory to look for files, extension of files to search and the find and replace string.

Use at your own risk.  The program will make a backup of the file.  VB Script is not the most efficient find and replace program for very large files, but if you have 100 or so dtsConfig files to edit, it works like a charm !

The same type of program can be done in a Power Shell script, and it is the cool new buzz language, but since it is only installed on 1 out 170 servers we support, it's not quite useful yet....i'll post the power shell script later.

replace.txt (1.76 KB)

Replace_in_All_files.txt (1.5 KB)