Replace Specific Word from a Content via Notepad & WordPad

It’s going to take a long time when you are manually replacing a word to another word from a content file. It’s a troublesome when the replacement are lots! Using notepad or wordpad, it’s gonna take a second only.

1. As an example, you are going to change the word ‘DEV’ to ‘PRD’ based on the content below.

DATAFILE
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_1/sr3.data1',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_2/sr3.data2',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_3/sr3.data3',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_4/sr3.data4',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_5/sr3.data5',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_6/sr3.data6',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_7/sr3.data7',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_8/sr3.data8',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_9/sr3.data9',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_10/sr3.data10',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_11/sr3.data11',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_12/sr3.data12',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_13/sr3.data13',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_14/sr3.data14',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_15/sr3.data15',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_16/sr3.data16',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_17/sr3.data17',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_18/sr3.data18',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_19/sr3.data19',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_20/sr3.data20',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_21/sr3.data21',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_22/sr3.data22',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_23/sr3.data23',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_24/sr3.data24',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_25/sr3.data25',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_26/sr3.data26',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_27/sr3.data27',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_28/sr3.data28',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata2/sr3_29/sr3.data29',
  '/oracle/DEV/sapdata1/sr3_30/sr3.data30',

2. Open the file using notepad or wordpad. Go to Edit > Replace. Put the before word to convert in Find What and after word converted in Replace with. Choose Replace All to automatically change all or Replace for one on one.