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| From | Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows, alt.msdos.batch |
| Subject | How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? |
| Date | 2022-12-19 07:43 +0000 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <tnp4n3$jrm$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
How can one most easily insert contents of a file (or a line of text)
at a given line-number location inside each of hundreds of text files?
It seems that vpngate.net vpn configuration files now require a username
(of vpn) and a password (of vpn), which isn't a big deal for most people
who don't use automation, as they'd just type the login/password in when
asked by their openvpn client graphical user interface.
But I change the Time Zone & VPN server every few minutes via batch files.
It's easy to _manually (aurgh!) add at line 103 the "password.txt" line,
but what might you think is an easy way to add that line to _every_ file?
Here's what I do manually (which, admittedly, is a PITA albeit simple):
1. cd directory-containing-hundreds-of-openvpn-config-files
2. vim *.ovpn
3. :103
4. ~r include.txt
5. :write (abbreviated as :w)
6. :next (abbreviated as :n)
1. That manual process starts in a directory of many files
2. and then edits, one by one, each of a few hundred *.ovpn files;
3. and then it jumps to line 103 (it's always in the same spot);
4. and then I include the file, which contains the following line only:
auth-user-pass C:\\path\\config\\passwd.txt
5. and then I write the *.ovpn file;
6. and then I skip to the next *.ovpn file.
Where the contents of the c:\path\config\passwd.txt file is two lines:
vpn
vpn
The first being the username & the latter being the password as described
in the <http://vpngate.net> home page (this is a brand new requirement).
If I were to simply append the line to the _end_ of the *.ovpn files,
instead of inserting thatline at line 103, I could use a Windows command
line foreach loop to append the "include.txt" file to the *.ovpn file:
for %f in (*.ovpn) do type include.txt >> %f
But how can I _insert+ that one-line include.txt file at line 103?
How can one most easily insert contents of a file (or a line of text)
at a given line-number location inside each of hundreds of text files?
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How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-12-19 07:43 +0000
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Jeff Barnett <jbb@notatt.com> - 2022-12-19 00:53 -0700
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2022-12-19 05:32 -0500
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-12-19 16:36 +0000
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2022-12-19 12:53 -0500
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2022-12-20 19:15 +0100
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2022-12-20 11:23 +0000
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2022-12-19 09:48 +0000
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2022-12-19 09:50 +0000
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Big Al <Bears@invalid.com> - 2022-12-19 10:42 -0500
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2022-12-19 22:51 +0100
Re: How to insert contents of a file (or a line of text) at a given location inside hundreds of text files? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2022-12-20 09:16 +0100
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