looking for text file find and replace utility

[Monty J. Harder]

 <KRFinch at dstsystems.com> wrote:

> I have a group of 6 scripts that I need to do multiple find and replace
> operations on.  Basically the find and replace operations are all simple
> 'change all instances of "cat" to "dog"' type operations, but I have
> upwards of 400 of these searches that I need to be performed against each
> of these 6 scripts.  The thought of doing that manually gives me the
> willies, and it would take a lot of time.  I'd really like something I
> could just feed lists of variables into and let it go to town, even if it
> only did it for one file at a time.
>
> I know that I could probably grep this all up pretty nicely (if I knew
> how), but I'm kinda stuck with Wintel tools.  Anyone out there come across
> any Wintel tools to batch lots of text file find and replace operations?

  Cygwin is a Wintel tool, isn't it?