What tools and languages are available for windows shell scripting?

Question

I want to know what are the options to do some scripting jobs in windows platform. I need functionality like file manipulations, registry editing etc. Can files be edited using

Answer 1

Powershell can do what you need.

file manipulations

This SO post answers how you can replace a string in your text file. Pasting it here for easy reference:

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

There are other things that you can do, such as copying files and folders. You can find out more on the Windows Powershell Documentation

registry editing

This can be easily done using Powershell. Here's a sample code from Microsoft Dev Blogs:

Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\Software\hsg -Name newproperty -Value anewvalue