FART, a simple utility GREP-LIKE for Windows

FART (Find and Replace Text utility) is free utility for Windows used by the command line.

E 'is very similar to the function "grep" Linux / Unix, because it allows for quick search inside entire directory in a recursive and to carry out operations to "find / replace" massive content of the files.

The use of FART is very simple:

fart [opzioni] filename-pattern stringa-da-ricercare [stringa-da-sostituire]

Among the many options available to the most interesting are, in my opinion, the following:

-r a recursive process in all subfolders
-c printing a video file names, the number of matches found and Total
-i not search "case-sensitive"
-C interprets backslashes "\" as characters in "C-style"

For example, if we have a folder containing the files downloaded in html format UNIX ( "\ n" as the character of new line) and we want them to adapt to Windows format ( "\ r \ n") we simply launch FART in this manner:

fart --c-style *.html \n \r\n

If instead we want to identify all files that contain a certain string (for example, the string "TODO"), highlighting the number of occurrences, launched FART goes like this:

fart -nr * TODO

Download FART or visit the official website.

Via Hackszine

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