farp

A tool to find and replace given pattern with substitute text or filter inside file.

Due to this feature it can be used for replacing the matched selection either with substitute text or filtered text. The filtered texts are made by applying filter criterias over matched selections.

Prerequisite

It would require node.js to be installed on system prior its use.

Setup

Install the app using npm & to access it globally

npm install -g farp

Usage

You can see the available options via below command

> farp
Farp (v1.1.0)

A tool to replace given pattern with substitute inside file.

Syntax:
  farp <pattern> <substitute> <file>
  farp <pattern> --filter=<criteria> <file>

Options:
  --filter    Criteria to modify the matched chunk 

Usages:
  farp 'foo' 'bar' file.txt
  farp '\/\{[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+\}' '--filter={"{":"&#123;","}":"&#125;"}' file.txt

It would also get displayed in case of missing parameters.