Have you ever found your self in a situation where you’ve needed to replace text in multiple files quickly and efficiently?<\/p>\n
I came across this conundrum on a monthly basis when I needed to change the contents of tens\/hundreds of LoadRunner scripts and parameters to point from the name of the preceding month to the name of the current month.<\/p>\n
I did a bit of searching online and found this handy little command line utility called FART – Find and Replace Text<\/a>. Put simply, it searches a file for X string and replaces it with Y.<\/p>\n It is really easy to use and literally takes a few minutes to set-up:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This line instructs FART to simply replace the string oldText<\/strong> with newText<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This line will instruct FART to recursively (-r) search for any file with the .prm extension in the \\Scripts folder. The -i flag tells FART to ignore case-sensitivity when looking for the string.<\/p>\n You can download the latest version of FART (1.99b) from the author’s homepage<\/a> or from here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever found your self in a situation where you’ve needed to replace text in multiple files quickly and efficiently? I came across this conundrum on a monthly basis when I needed to change the contents of tens\/hundreds of LoadRunner scripts and parameters to point from the name of the preceding month to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1trTO-8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Usage: FART [options] [--] [,...] [find_string] [replace_string]<\/code><\/p>\nOptions:
\n-h --help Show this help message (ignores other options)
\n-q --quiet Suppress output to stdio \/ stderr
\n-V --verbose Show more information
\n-r --recursive Process sub-folders recursively
\n-c --count Only show filenames, match counts and totals
\n-i --ignore-case Case insensitive text comparison
\n-v --invert Print lines NOT containing the find string
\n-n --line-number Print line number before each line (1-based)
\n-w --word Match whole word (uses C syntax, like grep)
\n-f --filename Find (and replace) filename instead of contents
\n-B --binary Also search (and replace) in binary files (CAUTION)
\n-C --c-style Allow C-style extended characters (\\xFF\\0\\t\\n\\r\\\\ etc.)
\n--cvs Skip cvs dirs; execute \"cvs edit\" before changing files
\n-a --adapt Adapt the case of replace_string to found string
\n-b --backup Make a backup of each changed file
\n-p --preview Do not change the files but print the changes<\/code><\/p>\nExamples:<\/h3>\n
fart \"C:\\APRIL2011\\Scripts\\someFile.txt\" oldText newText
\n<\/code><\/p>\nfart -i -r \"C:\\APRIL2011\\Scripts\\*.prm\" march2011 APRIL2011<\/code><\/p>\nDownload:<\/h3>\n