regex find & replace command ?

I'm looking for somthing I can pass a filename, perl-compatible regular expression, & replacement pattern to for find & replace via a terminal.

Somthing like this.



Or this

This kinda makes me want to write this up myself.

If I get some free time this weekend, I think I will.

This isn't exactly what I was looking for, but it works & uses a regex syntax I'm familiar with.

Uses the PHP CLI to pass arguments to a preg_replace script.

replace.php


usage

That was my first thought, but I figured you were looking for a small executable that you could add to your PATH.

Actually I think the small executable, or the source for one, is what I'm looking for.

I'm looking into the Boost regex library for this, since C++ doesn't have any built-in Perl-style regex capabilities. As soon as I get the chance to play around with it I'll put together a small program.

While getting to know gedit I came across sed which I can use via gedits external applications plugin.



The syntax for sed is slightly different than what I'm used to, but since I can save commands as tools & use them later I think I can work around the syntax.

Interesting. I still plan on making this small app when I get the chance, I've just been insanely busy lately.

That sed looks like it uses POSIX regex syntax.