Would you like to learn how to replace words in a text file using Powershell? In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use Powershell to replace a string from a text file on a computer running Windows.
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2016
• Windows 2019
• Windows 10
• Windows 7
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Tutorial Powershell – Replace text in a File
Start a Powershell command-line.
Create a text file.
In our example, we create a text file named MYFILE in the root of drive C.
Get the content of a file and replace a specific word.
Here is the command output.
In our example, we replaced the string GOKU with the word GOTEN.
This will only display the result on the screen.
Replace a word in the text file.
There are multiple ways to replace a string in a file.
Congratulations! You are able to replace words in a text file using Powershell.
