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Is there any way to replace content in an asynchronous way? I didn't find the async api in `README.md`, but found an async option in `replace.js` which seems can asynchronously...

xcatliu

I wan't to replace with multiline a tag which goes over multiple lines: ``` sh replace '(.*?)' '$1' index.html -p -m ``` How is the correct syntax to do this?...

alinex

Tests fail as below. Maybe you just forgot to git add test_numbers.txt? ``` $ tap test ok test/paths.js ...................................... 19/19 not ok test/sanity.js ................................... 2/3 Command: "node" "sanity.js" TAP version...

danc86

/usr/local/bin/replace clashes with mariadb

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``` bash ❯ sudo npm install replace -g Password: npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/replace npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/replace npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/nomnom npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/colors npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/minimatch npm...

psynaptic

documenting some limitations

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the limitations I see are - no handling of symlinks - limited line length I documented both of those. I'm not so sure about the second, but I added a...

vielmetti

I get this error message when I call replace with `-r` over a largish amount of files (1856 files in one case). At first I didn't think it affected functionality...

suan

When you do `replace foo bar dir` and leave out the `-r`, `replace` should warn you or mark it in some way. Hopefully it wouldn't be too distracting, as entering...

harthur

Is there a dry run mode before the replacement takes place?

4

It would be scary if the some matches go wrong.

yangchenyun

Option to delete matching lines

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This would be useful for removing `console.log()` lines.

harthur

Use concurrency limit to prevent EMFILE errors

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Something like ``` javascript var queue = require("queue-async") var q = queue(opts.concurrency || 250) // ... for each file ... q.defer(replace) //before terminating q.awaitAll() ```

stuartpb