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Replace inplace? #2568

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jmigual asked this question in General
Jul 25, 2023 · 3 comments · 5 replies
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The documentation for the -r flag states: "Replace every match with the text given when printing results. Neither this flag nor any other ripgrep flag will modify your files."

I doubt the authors would want to modify ripgrep to do in-place editing of files. And neither should they in my opinion, as it's a file search utility and not a file editing utility. I would suggest either writing a script and/or using the find utility to iterate over your files and use sed -i to replace your text instead.

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