awoimbee / rsr

Recursive Search & Replace, as fast as possible. Saves lots of time on large repositories.

RSR

Why

Because search & replace tools suck and are slow on big repositories. This just works, fast. Be careful, you might find this tool to be too fast when you (accidentaly) run it on / (or C:\ for the weirdos).

Alternatives

fastmod and it's ancestor codemod from the people at Facebook.

How to use

It's just a simple search & replace tool. It's optimized to make lots of changes at once, use this at your advantage.

./rsr <file/folder> [-e] [-g] --search "str1" "str2" "str3" --replace "repl1" "repl2" "repl3"

• -s --search: list of search strings
• -r --search: list or replacement strings (repl1 replaces str1, repl2 str2, ...) The syntax for capture groups is $(ID), where ID is a number. There are some modifiers like U (uppercase) and L (lowercase), to use them: $(0U) or $(3L) or ...
• -e --escape: escape search string (also 'escapes' replacement string) -> TL:DR: disables regex
• -g --glob: Regex string to filter file path/name -> exemple: '.*\.php'