regex

... because it makes developers life easier 😎

Features

• .NET Regular Expressions for CLI on Linux, macOS and Windows
• .NET Tool Deployment
• NuGet Package
• Permissive MIT License

Install

dotnet tool install --global cap.regex --version 1.0.0

Options

Usage:
regex [option]... pattern (file|directory)...
Arguments:
pattern The search pattern as .NET Regular Expression (RegEx).
file File to operate.
directory Directory to operate. (Must end with a directory separator)
Options:
-R, --replace=VALUE replacement Pattern (regex)
-c, --case-sensitive enables case-sensitive behavior - btw. disables the by default enabled ignore-case option
-f, --filter=VALUE wildcard based file filter (default *.*)
e.g. *.txt
-r, --recursive progress all subdirectories
--offset-width=VALUE output-formatting:
set the count of characters used for the offset column (default 6)
-o, --only-matching prints only the match
-m, --max-count=VALUE limit matches to the given count
-v, --verbose show additional information
-V, --version show version information
-h, --help shows this help

Usage Examples

Find "Hello" in all *.txt files in this folder and all subfolders

C:>regex --recursive --filter *.txt Hello ./