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Kinan
Kinan

Reputation: 11

Powershell: Find a replace from a variable

I'm new in Powershell, my code doesn't work, I can't figure out why despite spending hours trying..

What I would like to do: 1) Ask for user to type an IP Address 2) Find and replace a text by this IP Address

My variables

$demande_server = Read-Host "IP Address" >> c:\temp\SQLtemp.txt

$address = Get-Content -Path "c:\temp\SQLtemp.txt"

Then

(Get-Content -path c:\temp\SQL.txt) | foreach {$_ -replace("NomServeur=","NomServeur="$address")} >> c:\temp\SQL.txt

Thank you for your help :)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 545

Answers (1)

Ranadip Dutta
Ranadip Dutta

Reputation: 9133

Try this logic: 

$IPAddress=Read-Host "Enter the IP Address: "
$file_Content= Get-Content "c:\temp\SQLtemp.txt"
foreach($file in $file_Content)
{
$file.replace("NomServeur=","NomServeur=$IPAddress") >> c:\temp\new_OUTPUT.txt
}

So, "new_OUTPUT.txt" will have the new output which should have the replaced text.

Note: If you want to set it back to the old file. Then store the entire result in a variable and then overwrite the old file with the entire result set.

Hope it helps.

Sample OUTPUT:

This is my file content:

File_Content

This is the Replaced File Content:

Replaced Content

My Input was 192.168.1.1

Upvotes: 1

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