Replace the filename.txt and search1/replace1 with your filename and the proper search/replace strings or text. Echo off set "textfile=filenam...

It's hard to give a definitive answer because it's not clear what you mean by very simple search and replace , but here are all the elements neede...

To add to Johan A's answer , if you want the find/replace strings to be supplied from a user input instead of hardcoded, you can write it like thi...

You can do a search and replace in a file or using a hard coded string or a regular expression using a VBScript (which can be executed by a batch s...