amber – code search and replace tool

amber is a code search and replace tool written by Rust. Two commands (ambs/ambr) are provided. ambs means “amber search”, and ambr means “amber replace”.

This tool is inspired by ack, ag, and other grep-like tools.

amber is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Useful default settings:
  • Recursively search from the current directory.
  • Ignore VCS directories (.git, .hg, .svn, .bzr).
  • Ignore binary files.
  • Output by the colored format.
• Multi-threaded searching:
  • Large files ( > 1MB by default) are divided and searched in parallel.
• Interactive replacing:
  • amber can replace a keyword over directories (traditionally by find … | xargs sed -i ‘…’) . You can decide to do replacing or not interactively.
• Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Website: github.com/dalance/amber
Support:
Developer: dalance
License: MIT License

amber is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials

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