Sometimes we grep for something in a bunch of files, and then we want to make edits to the lines that were returned from the grep. It's a hassle in most editors to open all the files and find all the lines. grepedit puts the match lines in a temp file for easy editing all at once.
The cmdline arguments to grepedit are the same as those to grep. Do not use arguments that alter the output line format; -C is ok.
grepedit also reads the following arguments:
--sort-text sort lines by the text part of the line (this probably
doesn't make sense with -C)
Download version 1.0 (2005/10/9).
Or, if you have
easy install
(setuptools), simply run:
easy_install grepedit
Run grepedit on itself and setup.py:
% grepedit the *Edit the result lines in vi (according to $EDITOR): grepedit:3:"""sometimes we grep for something in a bunch of files, and then we grepedit:4:want to make edits to the lines that were returned from the grep. It's grepedit:5:a hassle to edit all the files; this program puts the match lines in a grepedit:8:EDITOR is used on the temporary file. grepedit:10:The cmdline arguments to grepedit are the same as those to grep. Do grepedit:11:not use arguments that alter the output line format; -C is ok. grepedit:13:grepedit also reads the the following arguments: grepedit:15: --sort-text sort lines by the text part of the line (this probably grepedit:100: print "%s:%s has changed since the grep command ran- not modifying this line" % key setup.py:6: description="edit lines the result of a grep and modify the original files", ~ ~ ~ "/tmp/grepedit_IOLHsa" 10 lines, 792 charactersgrepedit reports what changes it made: % grepedit the * no changes made in file setup.py grepedit:13 substituting new line % |