replacing text in app.config using powershell script

Question

I am trying a simple replace script to replace text in a app.cofig file. But it just processed and do nothing:

$old = 'Z:\gene'
$new = 'z:\gene\scripts'
Get-ChildItem z:\gene\scripts\Test\App.config -Recurse | Where {$_ -IS [IO.FileInfo]} |
% {
(Get-Content $_.FullName) -replace $old,$new | Set-Content $_.FullName
Write-Host "Processed: " + $_.FullName
}

Any Idea what I am doing wrong. As same script works fine for .txt file Thanks

Orn Kristjansson · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-12 21:14:45Z

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App.config is xml formatted but it's a text file as well, it should work the same. My guess is that you have a different values that your working on and they are not hitting. If you rename the file to app.txt does it work ? You might also consider using nant xmlpoke if you are running from nant script.

answered Sep 12, 2012 at 21:14

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sam Over a year ago

yes checked..Seems it is not scripting the path drives while replacing. If you use simple text instead of z: then it works. Any idea how to replace the full path as well.

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