Description:

applysubs 0.5.5

apply-subs






A command line application to apply a dictionnary (json) of substitutions to
text file corpus. This program is a find-and-replace tool to perform a
arbitrarily large set of substitutions in a reproducible fashion.
Disclaimer, this app is far less powerful than sed and in particular doesn't
support regex replacement. What it offers a simpler interface to make simple
sweeping changes across a whole project in a reproducible fashion.
Installation
The easiest installation method is
$ pip install apply-subs

In order to install apply-subs in isolation, use pipx instead.
Examples
apply-subs uses a json file as input. This file should specify substitutions
as new: old, where old can either be a single str, or a list of strings.
minimal case
echo "bunnies and bongos and bananas" > mytext.txt
echo '{"bunnies": "rabbits", "SECRETS": ["bongos", "bananas"]}' > mysubs.json
apply-subs mytext.txt -s mysubs.json

will print the patched content
bunnies and SECRETS and SECRETS

diff mode
Use diff mode (-d/--diff) to print a diff instead of the end result
--- mytext.txt
+++ mytext.txt (patched)
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
+Hello dolor sit amet, consectetur goodbye

Use -cp/--cdiff/--colored-diff for a colored output (when supported).
inplace substitutions
-i/--inplace
apply-subs --inplace mytext.txt -s mysubs.json

is equivalent to
apply-subs mytext.txt -s mysubs.json > mytext.txt

target several files in one go
The target positional argument can consist of a single file (as illustrated above),
or many. This is useful for instance if you need to apply a set of subtitutions to
all files in a project whose name match a regexp.
git ls-files | egrep "(.md|.py)$" | xargs apply-subs -s subsubs.json -i

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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