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text-processor: Batch Find, Replace, Extract, and Count Text Files

#javascript #node #cli #text

text-processor: Batch Find, Replace, Extract, and Count Text Files

Working with text files at scale? Whether it's log analysis, code refactoring, or content migration — text-processor handles it from the terminal.

Installation 

npm install -g text-processor-pro
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Commands

Find and Replace 

text-processor-pro replace *.txt "old_text" "new_text"
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Extract Lines Matching Pattern 

text-processor-pro extract logs/*.log "ERROR" -o errors.txt
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Count Words and Lines 

text-processor-pro count *.md --words --lines
# Total files: 12
# Total words: 15,234
# Total lines: 1,892
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Format Text 

text-processor-pro format input.txt --uppercase -o output.txt
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Use Cases

  • Developers refactoring code across multiple files
  • Writers doing bulk content updates
  • Data analysts preprocessing text datasets
  • DevOps parsing and filtering log files

Example: Analyze Server Logs 

# Find all 500 errors in last week's logs
text-processor-pro extract /var/log/*.log "HTTP/1.1 500" -o errors.txt
# Count unique error types
text-processor-pro count errors.txt --lines
# Replace sensitive data
text-processor-pro replace *.log "<password>" "[REDACTED]"
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Links

💻 GitHub: github.com/lb1192176991-lab/text-processor-pro

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