A search/replace utility.
rpl replaces strings with new strings in multiple text files. See the man
page rpl(1) for more information. Install rpl using pip install rpl.
rpl is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option), any later version. See the file COPYING for more details.
usage: rpl [-h] [--version] [--encoding ENCODING] [-i] [-m] [-w] [-b] [-q]
[-v] [-s] [-e] [-F] [--files] [-x GLOB] [-R] [-p] [-f] [-d]
OLD-TEXT NEW-TEXT [FILE ...]
Search and replace text in files.
positional arguments:
OLD-TEXT
NEW-TEXT
FILE `-' or no FILE argument means standard input
options:
-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
-x GLOB, --glob GLOB modify only files matching the given glob (may be
given more than once)
-R, --recursive search recursively
-p, --prompt prompt before modifying each file
-f, --force ignore errors when trying to preserve attributes
-d, --keep-times keep the modification times on modified files
