Windows Command Line Find and replace – Made easy
I finally found a great little application that does a find and replace on a particular file or file type, then replacing it with a string, of your choice. It also looks in sub directory, whilst there are many grep’s out there most are GUI for windows or pay for items that run command line… I like free better, don’t you?
And yes SED could do it, as could a few other apps, but why write something when this can be done so much easier?
the small app is called FART, yes that’s right FART!
Here are the options FART provides
Find And Replace Text v1.99b by Lionello Lunesu
Usage: FART [options] [--] <wildcard>[,...] [find_string] [replace_string]
Options:
-h, –help Show this help message (ignores other options)
-q, –quiet Suppress output to stdio / stderr
-V, –verbose Show more information
-r, –recursive Process sub-folders recursively
-c, –count Only show filenames, match counts and totals
-i, –ignore-case Case insensitive text comparison
-v, –invert Print lines NOT containing the find string
-n, –line-number Print line number before each line (1-based)
-w, –word Match whole word (uses C syntax, like grep)
-f, –filename Find (and replace) filename instead of contents
-B, –binary Also search (and replace) in binary files (CAUTION)
-C, –c-style Allow C-style extended characters (\xFF\t\n\r\\ etc.)
–cvs Skip cvs dirs; execute “cvs edit” before changing files
–svn Skip svn dirs
–remove Remove all occurences of the find_string
-a, –adapt Adapt the case of replace_string to found string
-b, –backup Make a backup of each changed file
-p, –preview Do not change the files but print the changes
As an example
fart -c -r -i -p *.config databaseserver1 databaseserver2
this will look for all config files in a sub directory then looking for the databaseserver1 string within the .config file and then changing it to databaseserver2, If you notice i have a -p which means it wont actually change anything because this is a preview, showing you how many strings it found within each .config file.
Download FART here
