SSR: Simple Search & Replace

HOWTO search and replace from command line

Background

I was to search and replace inside a simple batch-script and wanted a search and replace tool from the command line.

After searching I didn't find what I was looking for and compiled this simple tool.

ssr.exe (Win32-Command-Line-Tool)

Example

ssr c:\\temp\\= \\=\t test.txt

Deletes the string c:\temp\ and replaces \ (backslash) with TAB

ssr "ServerHost=Value1"="ServerHost=Value2" config_file.ini

Use above command to replace values in a config file

ssr -0 \x01=\x20 test.txt >test_space.txt

Replace hex 00 with spaces in a textfile (-0 or --zero)

ssr -m="....[05]00 {8}....[05]00.*" -h=X,Y,Z \s08=, \s07=, grid.txt -o=grid_500m.csv

Use above command to reduce huge coordinate grid file (grid in 100m) to grid in 500m CC. Grid line format: 1234567 1234567 123.45

ssr search.txt=replace.txt test.txt

Replaces the content of search.txt with the content of replace.txt in test.txt (if search.txt and replace.txt exists)

ssr -l -r "\s*([^ ])\s*\e\s*([^ ]*)\s*"="$1\e$2" test.txt

Removes whitespace around Name = Value pairs in test.txt

Download / Install

• get SSR   ssr.zip a 32-bit windows-command-line-application
  
• Extract the ssr.exe (1 file) place it whereever (preferable in path) and run (from command line)...
  
  
• Install ssr with chocolatey package manager:
  choco install ssr -s http://chocolatey.commercior.com/chocolatey
• Update ssr with:
  choco upgrade ssr -s http://chocolatey.commercior.com/chocolatey

Versions / History

2022-jan-24, version 1.32

-latin1 flag: convert utf8 to latin1

2020-sep-04, version 1.3

-filter flag: return only rows matching filter string

2019-dec-16, version 1.28

new --mysql flag: escape ", tab and newline

2018-okt-12, version 1.24

new -uf (--use-file) flag, previous version always tried to find a file with content of search or replace

2017-dec-30, version 1.23

documented -rd and -sort flag

2017-dec-05, version 1.22

-k flag didn't work correct and description was updated

2017-feb-20, version 1.20

if search (or replace) is a filname, that content is not escaped by \t etc.

2016-jun-30, version 1.19

fix to use $search$replace$ pairs for shells that do not like the equal sign

2014-nov-01, version 1.17

small bug-fix

2013-sep-03, version 1.15

support for \q as " (quote)

2013-maj-31, version 1.13

added support to replace hex00 in textfiles

2013, version 1.11

Some buggfixes published

2010-mar-05, version 1.6

Support for regular expresion substitutions

2010-feb-22, version 1.5

Support for large search and replace statements

2009-nov-05, version 1.4

Buggfix, parsing correct filename from commandline

2009-oct-21, version 1.3

Line-By-Line function for huge files.

2009-aug-03, version 1.0

Implemented

Published

This tool is published in the softpedia catalogue: softpedia.com/get/System/File-Management/SSR-Simple-Search-Replace.shtml

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