Search And Replace

The search script allows to find or replace either a plain-text string or a token in a file or a set of files.

Command line and options for searching

Once the file compiled in binary the syntax of the command is:

search [options] string files

with PHP the command is

php search.php [options] string files

The file argument may be a single filename or a definition with wildcard, for example *.* for alls files in the directory. The ? wildcard is also supported.
Example:

search string myfile.html
search string *.html
search string *.htm?

The command is not recursive, it applies only to the current directory or the given path.
Options may be concatenated, for example -ic is equivalent to -i -c.

Options

-i ignore case for the string and the content of the file, the default is case-sensitive.
-c searches for identifiers and use special characters of C as separators.
-f display all parsed files, by default display only the filename with the matches.
-u case-sensitive on filenames as of Unix, by default ignores case of filenames.

Command for replacing

To replace a string by another one in a set of files, the command is:

search [options] string1 string2 files

The presence of a second string, that is the replacing string, while the first one is the string to replace, is sufficient to turn the script into a replacing tool.

Download

• Search, the zip archive holds an executable for Windows, a PHP version for any system with PHP 4 or 5 enabled, and the Scriptol source.
• Compiler.