rereplace is a string replacement tool which uses a regular expression.
Since it was tired from mass-producing an one line sed script tutorial, it created.
This is is a string replacement tool which uses a regular expression.
- input is STDIN and an output is STDOUT.
- PATTERN and REPLACEMENT can also be read from a files.
cat textfile.txt | sed -re 's/^([^\t\n]*)\t([^\t\n]*)\t([^\t\n]*)\t([^\t\n]*)$/\1,\4/g'
cat textfile.txt | rereplace.py '^([^\t\n]*)\t([^\t\n]*)\t([^\t\n]*)\t([^\t\n]*)$' '\1,\4'
cat > pattern.txt <<EOB
(?x)
^
([^\t\n]*)\t
([^\t\n]*)\t
([^\t\n]*)\t
([^\t\n]*)
$
EOB
echo -n '\1,\2' > replacement.txt
cat textfile.txt | rereplace.py @pattern.txt @replacement.txt
Python 3.x
usage: rereplace.py [-h] [--re-ascii] [--re-debug] [--re-ignorecase]
[--re-locale] [--re-multiline] [--re-dotall]
[--re-verbose] [--multiline]
PATTERN REPLACEMENT
regex replacing tool
positional arguments:
PATTERN
REPLACEMENT
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--multiline enable multi-line mode (read all the lines into a
memory)
regex matching flags:
--re-ascii, -a re.ASCII
--re-debug re.DEBUG
--re-ignorecase, -i re.IGNORECASE
--re-locale, -l re.LOCALE
--re-multiline, -m re.MULTILINE
--re-dotall, -s re.DOTALL
--re-verbose, -x re.VERBOSE
copy rereplace.py. or python3 setup.py install or python3 setup.py py2exe (require py2exe)
MIT