NAME

       rpl - replace strings in files

DESCRIPTION

       usage:  rpl [-h] [--version] [--encoding ENCODING] [-E] [-i] [-m] [-w] [-b] [-q] [-v] [-s]
       [-e] [-F] [--files] [-x GLOB] [-R] [-p] [-f] [-d] OLD-TEXT NEW-TEXT [FILE ...]

       Search and replace text in files.

       Text matching the pattern OLD-TEXT is replaced by NEW-TEXT in each FILE. The  pattern  may
       match multiple lines.

       Filenames  may  include  glob patterns (these must be quoted to avoid being interpreted by
       the shell), and in particular may use ‘**’ to match all files and zero or more directories
       and subdirectories. Tilde and environment variable expansion is also performed.

   positional arguments:
              OLD-TEXT  NEW-TEXT  FILE                   `-'  or  no FILE argument means standard
              input

   options:
       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

       --encoding ENCODING
              specify character set encoding

       -E, --extended-regex
              use extended regular expression module `regex'

       -i, --ignore-case
              search case-insensitively

       -m, --match-case
              ignore case when searching, but try  to  match  case  of  replacement  to  case  of
              original, either capitalized, all upper-case, or mixed

       -w, --whole-words
              whole words (OLD-TEXT matches on word boundaries only)

       -b, --backup
              rename original FILE to FILE~ before replacing

       -q, --quiet
              quiet mode

       -v, --verbose
              verbose mode

       -s, --dry-run
              simulation mode

       -e, --escape
              expand escapes in OLD-TEXT and NEW-TEXT [deprecated]

       -F, --fixed-strings
              treat OLD-TEXT and NEW-TEXT as fixed strings, not regular expressions

       --files
              OLD-TEXT and NEW-TEXT are file names to read patterns from

       -x GLOB, --glob GLOB
              modify only files matching the given glob (may be given more than once)

       -R, --recursive
              search recursively

       -p, --prompt
              prompt before modifying each file

       -f, --force
              ignore errors when trying to preserve attributes

       -d, --keep-times
              keep the modification times on modified files

EXAMPLES

       Replace  all  occurrences  of the word ‘F’ with ‘A’ in all files with extension .txt under
       the grades/ directory:

              rpl -w F A 'grades/**/*.txt'

AUTHOR

       Written by Göran Weinholt and Reuben Thomas.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2018-2022 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
       Copyright © 2017 Jochen Kupperschmidt <homework@nwsnet.de>
       Copyright © 2016 Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org>
       Copyright © 2004-2005 Göran Weinholt <weinholt@debian.org>
       Copyright © 2004 Christian Häggström <chm@c00.info>

       rpl comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  You may redistribute copies of rpl under the terms
       of the GNU General Public License.  For more information about these matters, see the file
       named COPYING.

       This program was written for Debian as a free replacement for the non-free rpl program  by
       Joe Laffey.

SEE ALSO

       find(1), sed(1).