February 1st, 2023

Find & Replace in a project

Find and replace using ripgrep and sed

#shell #scripting #cli #terminal

  rg 'YOUR_SERCH_TERMS' <location> -l | xargs sed \
    -i '' 's,YOUR_SEARCH_TERMS,REPLACE_VALUE,g'

-l list all the affected files
NOTE: sed does not have full regex support, at least for what I tried, so you cannot use the same pattern as for rg

Examples

  rg "import (\w+) from '@components/untitled-icons/(.*)'" \
    src/**/* -l | xargs \
    sed -i '' "s,import \(.*\) from '@components/untitled-icons/\(.*\)',import { \1 } from '@smartfish/icons',g"

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