rch

CLI tool to replace characters on a set of files

Replace character(s) with another one character(s) in a set of files given on a directory

Using it

rch -o 'i am sad' -n 'I AM GREAT!' -d /home/lucio/happy/docs

This will replace i am sad with I AM GREAT on every file's content that is inside the directory /home/lucio/happy/docs/.

rch -o 'i am scary' -n 'I AM SAFE!' -p /home/lucio/advanced/*.txt -b new_maybe -v

This will replace any appearence of the string i am scary with I AM SAFE! on every .txt file that is on the directory /home/lucio/advanced/ making a backup of each file on the directory new_maybe (creating the dir if not exist) and also print what is it doing (verbosing). A coffee? Sure..

Deployment

It's far from it, but at the moment you can move it to the /usr/bin folder to use it from any place

1. Download the script

2. Move it to the binaries folder with

sudo mv /path/to/the/downloaded/script/rch.sh /usr/bin/rch

3. Done!

Now you may type rch on the terminal at anytime! You can reboot the machine and the script will be there. Enjoy it :)

Wishlist

• It doesn't like special characters. For instance, entering / would break it. That's sad :( If you have a cool idea that may fix this, please share it! :)

Test

There is a script that will test the application against the most common use cases to see if everything is working as spected. To test it, you need to edit the test script (the test.sh file) and change:

1. The path to the package at line 8. Change it to your path or maybe alias to the application

PACKAGE='./rch.sh'

2. The directory where to generate the test files at line 322-326

local DIRECTORY="/home/user/testing/test_$$"

Now run the script ./test.sh and you should get Test [N] passed! for every test ran, where N is the number of the test ran starting from 1.

LICENSE

GNU General Public License, Version 3. See the LICENSE file.