https://github.com/beeman/search-replace

👀 A simple tool to help you search/replace throughout a codebase.
https://github.com/beeman/search-replace

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👀 A simple tool to help you search/replace throughout a codebase.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/beeman/search-replace
• Owner: beeman
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-11-25T05:25:20.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-11-24T17:19:43.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-20T11:55:33.031Z (8 months ago)
• Topics: cli, developer-tools, node, search-replace, typescript
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://www.npmjs.com/package/search-replace
• Size: 849 KB
• Stars: 5
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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A simple tool to help you search/replace throughout a codebase.

# Usage

Install globally if you want fast access to it.

```shell script

npm i -g search-replace

```

Search and replace all occurrences of `foo` with `bar`: 

```shell script

npx search-replace -p foo,bar 

```

You can specify multiple pairs:

```shell script

npx search-replace -p foo,bar -p Foo,Bar  

```

It can also rename the files:

```shell script

npx search-replace -p foo,bar --rename-files  

```

All options:

```shell script

Usage: search-replace -p foo,bar

Options:

  --version           Show version number                              [boolean]

  -d, --dry           Don't make any changes          [boolean] [default: false]

  -r, --rename-files  Renames files                   [boolean] [default: false]

  -f, --regexp-flags  Flags to pass in to regexp         [string] [default: "g"]

  -w, --working-dir   Working dir                        [string] [default: "."]

  -p, --pair          The search,replace pairs             [array] [default: []]

  -s, --separator     Separator between search,replace    [array] [default: ","]

  -h, --help          Show help                                        [boolean]

```

## Credits

This is just a simple wrapper, the heavy lifting is done by [adamreisnz/replace-in-file](https://github.com/adamreisnz/replace-in-file).

## MIT License