https://github.com/matovu-farid/wordrename
Assuming you have a file called file.txt and you want to replace all words foo with bar.
https://github.com/matovu-farid/wordrename
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Assuming you have a file called file.txt and you want to replace all words foo with bar.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/matovu-farid/wordrename
- Owner: matovu-farid
- Created: 2022-06-17T23:33:49.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-06-18T00:55:44.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-02T06:25:13.379Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: automation, python, python3, rename-script, renamer-utility
- Language: Python
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- Size: 8.79 KB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
This tool helps to automate the creation of files from templates by replacing some words with others.
## Prerequisites
Python3 should bre installed for this tool. [Click here](https://www.python.org/downloads/) if not installed.
OR on linux
```
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 --version
```
## Installation
First clone the tools repo
```
git clone https://github.com/matovu-farid/tools.git
```
```
ln -s $PWD/tools/rename/wordrename /usr/bin
```
## Usage
```
wordrename -[i | -d ] -o -r -w
Replace words with those provided
Options:
-i, --input Input filename
-d, --directory Input directory
-o, --output Output filename
-r, --replaced Word to replace
-w, --with Word replacing the other word
-c, --clean Removes the input file
```
## Example
Assuming you have a file called file.txt and you want to replace all words foo with bar. Running the command below will replace all words including uppercase, title case and pluralized words
### Single file
```
wordrename -i file.txt -r foo -w bar
```
### Multiple files
```
wordrename -i file.txt,file2.txt -r foo -w bar
```
### Multiple replaced words
**Note: The number of replaced words should match the number of words that are replacing them**
```
wordrename -i file.txt -r foo,foo2 -w bar,bar2
```
### Specifying input directory
Assuming you have a folder called 'directory_name' that has file whose words you would want to copy and replace all words foo with bar.
```
wordrename -d directory_name -r foo -w bar
```