Installation

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/illbison/regex-filter or download as zip
2. Install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
3. (Optional) Install 7zip and add it to your PATH variable to handle compressed files
4. Run with python regex_filter.py ...

Usage

usage: regex_filter.py -i INPUT [INPUT ...] -f FILTER -o OUTPUT [-m] [-r] [-l] [-h]

Replace matched strings in file content and file names with specified substitute using regular expressions

Required:
  -i INPUT [INPUT ...], --input INPUT [INPUT ...]
                        Path to files or directories containing files
  -f FILTER, --filter FILTER
                        Path to a json file in REGEX:WORD format
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Path to output directory

Modifiers:
  -m, --modify          Use filter to modify content of files
  -r, --rename          Use filter to rename files

Optional:
  -l, --log             Log changes to a text file, NOTE: should only be used to debug the regex
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit

The json file must be in REGEX:WORD format where the keys are the regex and the values are the replacement. See example

A new directory named REGEX_FILTER will be created in the given output directory containing the cleaned input