- Joseph Pecoraro
- joepeck02@gmail.com
- http://blog.bogojoker.com
A multi-line search and replace utility that uses Ruby regular expressions for searching and allows back references to captured groups from the pattern to appear in the replacement text.
usage: rr [options] find replace [filenames]
rr [options] s/find/replace/ [filenames]
rr [options] find
find - a regular expression to be run on the entire file as one string
the final usage defaults the replacement to the empty string
replace - replacement text, \1-\9 and metachars (\n, etc.) are allowed
filenames - names of the input files to be parsed, if blank uses STDIN
options:
--line or -l process line by line instead of all at once (not default)
--case or -c makes the regular expression case sensitive (not default)
--global or -g process all occurrences in the text (default)
--modify or -m changes will directly modify the original file (not default)
--only or -o print out only what matches the regex
negated options are done by adding 'not' or 'n' in switches like so:
--notline or -nl
special note:
When using bash, if you want backslashes in the replace portion make sure
to use the multiple argument usage with single quotes for the replacement.
example usage:
Replace all a's with e's
rr s/a/e/ file
rr a e file
Doubles the last character on each line and doubles the newline.
rr "(.)\n" "\1\1\n\n" file
Replace all a's with e's
rr s/a/e/ file
rr a e file
Doubles the last character on each line and doubles the newline.
rr "(.)\n" "\1\1\n\n" file
- Ruby 1.8.6 or greater
From RubyForge:
sudo gem install regex_replace
or from GitHub:
gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install JosephPecoraro-rr
(The MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2008 Joseph Pecoraro
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