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multiReplace

This is an extensible, cross-platform, command line tool written in Python for fast find & replace strings in multiple files at a time.

The strings and their replacement are stored in *.ini files(config files) as pairs.

For the C version of this program checkout branch C.

Configs

No standard config is supplied! Please create your own, suitable for your needs.

Example:

[section1]
foo=bar
[sectionName]
find=replace

ATTENTION: If replacing special characters the config file's encoding must be the same as the file's in which the replacements are made, else the matching will fail.

Basic usage

Everything is done from a command line.

Download the executables archive, create a new config file and, depending on your OS:

./mr -p path/to/directory_or_file -c path/to/config/default.ini -s section

mr.exe -p path/to/directory_or_file -c path/to/config/default.ini -s section

Or just clone the repo and:

./mr.py -p path/to/directory_or_file -c path/to/config/default.ini -s section

Options

-h, --help              display this help information  
-s ..., --section=...   the config section you want to use for replacement  
-p ..., --path=...      the path to the dir or to the file the string should be replaced in  
-c ..., --config=...    the path to the configuration file where the replacement strings should be read  
-r, --recursive         is the path is a directory it will be walked recursively

Examples:

./mr.py -s ro -p ~/subs -c ~/cfg.ini
./mr.py -s ro -p ~/subs -c ~/cfg.ini -r
./mr.py -s ro -p ~/file.srt -c ~/cfg.ini
./mr.py --section ro --path ~/file.srt --config ~/cfg.ini

Dependencies

History

  1. multiReplace written in C, now becomes Pythonic multiReplace

  2. Original name: subEDIT Its original purpose was to replace characters in subtitles, now its purpose is generally to replace strings in files.

License

(C) Copyright 2011 Barbu Paul - Gheorghe

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.