simple-text-replacer 1.0.1

This provides text replacement by YAML or JSON format.

Abstract

This is a CLI application that provides string replacement with JSON and YAML files.

Regular expressions are not supported.

Japanse document is here.

How To Install

pip install simple-text-replacer

Package Dependencies

The following packages may not work properly if they are not installed:

• PyYAML: Most popular YAML parser for Python.

Example

my_pet.txt:

I have one dog and one cat.

replacer.json:

{"dog":"wolf", "cat":"lion"}

> simrep replacer.json my_pet.txt
> cat my_pet.txt
I have one wolf and one lion.

Sytax

simrep <replacer> <text_file>

replacer is in JSON or YAML format.

replacer must be written by key-value like {original_word: replacement_word}.

text_file can also be specified as a directory, but note that in this case, it will replace all files within that directory and its subdirectories.

If you prefer not to overwrite text_file, you can use the -n option to output to a new file or directory.

Options

[-h|--help]

Show help message.

[-v|--version]

Show version message.

[-n|--new]　<new file or new directory>

Ouput as an anther file or directory.