Powershell – How to replace every occurrence of a String in a file with PowerShell

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Using PowerShell, I want to replace all exact occurrences of [MYID] in a given file with MyValue. What is the easiest way to do so?

Best Answer

Use (V3 version):

(Get-Content c:\temp\test.txt).replace('[MYID]', 'MyValue') | Set-Content c:\temp\test.txt

Or for V2:

(Get-Content c:\temp\test.txt) -replace '\[MYID\]', 'MyValue' | Set-Content c:\temp\test.txt