FindReplaceCode

Used to generate a new code project from a template.

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WARNING: This tool is recursively destructive. Please be extremely careful with it.

This tool is installed as a dotnet tool: dotnet tool install Faithlife.FindReplaceCode.Tool --global.

Usage

Usage: findreplacecode <folder-path> <find> <replace> [<find> <replace> ...]

For example:

> findreplacecode C:\Code\MyItemApi MyItem CoolThing

Folder Path

The first argument is the folder path. This tool may edit and/or rename every file and every folder in that folder and all of its subfolders, so be very careful where you point it.

Normally you would point the tool at a folder where you have made a copy of a project or solution that you want to modify.

Find and Replace

Each pair of arguments after the folder path indicate text to find and text to replace it with.

The find-and-replace is executed not only on the content of code files, but it is also used to rename files and folders.

This tool also creates new a Visual Studio project GUID for each renamed and automatically substitutes that project GUID in any file that references the old one.