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How to edit text files directly from Command Prompt and PowerShell

On Windows 11, you can use the Microsoft Edit tool to work with text files while in Command Prompt or PowerShell without having to switch applications, and in this guide, I'll show you everything you ...
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How to Add a File Using CMD Line

One of the useful features of the Windows Command Prompt (also known as CMD, CMD line or Command line) is creating, or adding, a text file to the current directory. This is especially useful if you ...
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VB.NET: Overwriting a certain line in a text file

I have a little text file that I'm using for a few little preferences (last folder used, etc) for an app I'm trying to put together.<BR><BR>I'm able to grab the values I want from each line, but when ...
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Removing first N characters from each line in a text file, or * in search/replace

My wife has quite the challenge. To take subtitle files from an anime, and remove the time codes so as to make a screenplay for a fan dub group. She's on episode 5 of 20 something but I want to save ...
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Unix Tip: Managing line termination differences in text files

Most every Unix sysadmin has run smack into line ending incompatibilities from time to time. The most common problem is the appearance of ^M characters at the ends of lines in text files that were ...
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Read and write text files with Visual Basic .NET

Reading and writing text files is an essential task in any programming language. Follow this step-by-step approach to working with text files in VB .NET using the System.IO namespace. Years ago, when ...