[geeks] help, please..

[James Sharp]

> I've been put in the unfortunate position of having to write a DOS batch
> script to configure and install some software for a client.
> Unfortunately, while I seem to hae most of the major stuff covered, I
> can't seem to find a DOS equivilent of 'sed'.  Does such a thing exist?
>
> The goal is to take a text file and insert values at placeholders.
> Anyone know if this is possible with DOS?

Can you just install the cygwin unix tools and get sed & grep & awk & all
that?