aki-gsub

aki-gsub is the substitude text command, replace via regex.

Features

aki-gsub is the substitude text command, replace via regex.

• command help

aki-gsub --help

Usage:
  aki-gsub [options]

substitude text command, replace via regex.

Options:
  -e, --exp <exp>       regular expression
  -f, --format <fmt>    replace format
  -n, --quiet           no output unmach lines

  -H, --help        display this help and exit
  -V, --version     display version information and exit

Examples:
  Leaving one character between 'a' and 'c', converts 'a' and 'c'
  on both sides to '*':
    echo "abcabca" | aki-gsub -e "a(.)c" -f "*\$1*"
  result output:
    *b**b*a

  Converts 'a' to '*' and 'c' to '@'.
    echo "abcabca" | aki-gsub -e "a" -f "*" -e "c" -f "@"
  result output:
    *b@*b@*

• minimum support rustc 1.38.0

Quick install

1. you can install this into cargo bin path:

cargo install aki-gsub

2. you can build debian package:

cargo deb

and install .deb into your local repository of debian package.

Examples

Example 1: simple replacements

Leaving one character between 'a' and 'c', converts 'a' and 'c' on both sides to '*'.

command line:

echo "abcabca" | aki-gsub -e "a(.)c" -f "*\$1*"

result output:

*b**b*a

The \$1 mean 1st capture.

Example 2: extracting email address

This extracts the email address and prints the name and address in commas.

command line:

echo "From:Red bear<aki.akaguma@example.com>" | aki-gsub -e "From: ?(.*)<([\w\d_.-]+@[\w\d_-]+\.[\w\d._-]+)>" -f "\$1, \$2"

result output:

Red bear, aki.akaguma@example.com

The \$1 mean 1st capture. The \$2 mean 2nd capture.

Library example

See fn execute() for this library examples.