Notepad

[Solari]

Is it me or is Notepad just useless at search and replace and other functions?

I'm sat here doing a replace on a 365kB file which is taking ages when sed on a unix box takes less than a second?

is my box borked or something? Can't believe a Core2Duo rig can take so long at replacing a string?

 

[Solari]

Cheers chaps, great replacements.

Excel works just as well also... d'oh, should have thought of that first The algorithm in notepad is slower than any bastardisation I could possibly write in shell

So frustrating not having awk, sed, tr etc at home

 

[Solari]

Install cygwin?

Good point actually - I had it on the old PC, but for some reason it seems like an untidy installation to me.

I think when it comes to Vista crunch time, I will probably just install OpenSolaris seeing as I don't play games any more