Replacement for sed and 'open' in windows

Question

I have the following bash script that takes a text file and opens a tab in the default internet browser with a google query (after some clean ups) per line. I want to make a version of this script that works in Windows.

My question is what should I be looking at. I know windows doesn't have bash, nor sed. What is the easiest approach to this on windows?

#!/bin/bash         

URL="https://www.google.pt/?sesinv=1#output=search&q="
TMP=tmp.txt

if [ "$(uname)" == "Linux" ];then
    alias open=xdg-open
fi

sed -e '/^+++/d' -e '/^---/d' -e '/^@@/d' -e 's/^[ +-]*[0-9]* //g' $1 > $TMP

while read line         
do  
    echo "Opening $line"
    open -g "$URL$line"
done <$TMP

rm -f $TMP

Answer 1

I would use Powershell if you wanted to use a built-in solution. It can open the default browser and does some sed like functions.

Answer 2

To open a set of urls from a text file using windows commandline:

for /F "tokens=*" %a in (textFile.txt) do explorer.exe %a

in a batch script:

for /F "tokens=*" %%a in (%1) do explorer.exe %%a

(%1 is the first commandline argument.)

It doesnt take you all the way, but it ought to be enough to get you started. explorer.exe opens any file/folder passed to it in the default program.

This searches for all the lines in a txt file, not tested properly though.

for /F "tokens=*" %%A in (%1) do explorer.exe "http://www.google.com/?sesinv=1#output=search&q=%%A"