NAME
rpl - replace strings in files
DESCRIPTION
usage: rpl [-h] [--version] [--encoding ENCODING] [-i] [-m] [-w] [-b] [-q] [-v] [-s] [-e] [-F] [--files] [--noglob] [-p] [-f] [-d] OLD-TEXT NEW-TEXT FILE [FILE ...]
Search and replace text in files.
Text matching the pattern OLD-TEXT is replaced by NEW-TEXT in each FILE.
Filenames may include glob patterns (these must be quoted to avoid being interpreted by the shell), and in particular may use ’**’ to match all files and zero or more directories and subdirectories. Tilde and environment variable expansion is also performed.
positional arguments:
OLD-TEXT NEW-TEXT FILE
optional
arguments:
-h, --help
show this help message and exit
--version
show program’s version number and exit
--encoding ENCODING
specify character set encoding
-i, --ignore-case
search case-insensitively
-m, --match-case
ignore case when searching, but try to match case of replacement to case of original, either capitalized, all upper-case, or mixed
-w, --whole-words
whole words (OLD-TEXT matches on word boundaries only)
-b, --backup
rename original FILE to FILE~ before replacing
-q, --quiet
quiet mode
-v, --verbose
verbose mode
-s, --dry-run
simulation mode
-e, --escape
expand escapes in OLD-TEXT and NEW-TEXT [deprecated]
-F, --fixed-strings
treat OLD-TEXT and NEW-TEXT as fixed strings, not regular expressions
--files
OLD-TEXT and NEW-TEXT are file names to read patterns from
--noglob
disable globbing and other expansions
-p, --prompt
prompt before modifying each file
-f, --force
ignore errors when trying to preserve permissions
-d, --keep-times
keep the modification times on modified files
EXAMPLES
Replace all occurrences of the word ’F’ with ’A’ in all files with extension .txt under the grades/ directory:
rpl -w F A ’grades/**/*.txt’
AUTHOR
Written by Göran Weinholt and Reuben Thomas.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright
© 2004-2005 Göran Weinholt
<weinholt [AT] debian.org>
Copyright © 2004 Christian Häggström
<chm [AT] c00.info>
Copyright © 2016 Kevin Coyner
<kcoyner [AT] debian.org>
Copyright © 2017 Jochen Kupperschmidt
<homework [AT] nwsnet.de>
Copyright © 2018-2020 Reuben Thomas
<rrt [AT] sc3d.org>
rpl comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of rpl under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING.
This program was written for Debian as a free replacement for the non-free rpl program by Joe Laffey.