https://github.com/lionello/fart-it

Find And Replace Text command line utility. New & improved version of the well-known grep command, with advanced features such as: case-adaption of the replace string; find (& replace) in filenames, auto CVS edit.
https://github.com/lionello/fart-it

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Find And Replace Text command line utility. New & improved version of the well-known grep command, with advanced features such as: case-adaption of the replace string; find (& replace) in filenames, auto CVS edit.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lionello/fart-it
• Owner: lionello
• Created: 2019-07-05T01:34:00.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-10T22:59:34.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-11T14:04:41.137Z (6 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 223 KB
• Stars: 136
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 27
• Open Issues: 19
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  • Readme: README.md

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# FART

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Find And Replace Text command line utility. New & improved version of the well-known grep command, with advanced features such as: case-adaption of the replace string; find (& replace) in filenames.

```

Usage: fart [options] [--] [,...] [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\0\t\n\r\\ etc.)

     --cvs           Skip cvs dirs; execute "cvs edit" before changing files

     --svn           Skip svn dirs

     --git           Skip git dirs (default)

     --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

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