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id: fae
github: fae
home: /fae/
title: "fae"
subtitle: "Find and Edit Utility"
summary: "A tiny utility to find and replace text in files." 
content-type: project
active: true
version: 1.0.0
download: "https://github.com/h3rald/fae/releases/download/"
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### Usage


**fae** _pattern_ _replacement_ **[** _option1_ _option2_ ... **]**

Where:
* _pattern_ is a regular expression to search for.
* _replacement_ is an optional replacement stringv use \1, \2, etc. to reference captured groups).

#### Options

* -a, --apply &mdash; Substitute all occurrences of <pattern> with <replacement> in all files without asking for confirmation.
* -d, --directory &mdash; Search in the specified directory (default: .)
* -f, --filter &mdash; Specify a regular expression to filter file paths.
* -h, --help &mdash; Display this message.
* -i, --insensitive &mdash; Case-insensitive matching.
* -r, --recursive &mdash; Search directories recursively.
* -s, --silent &mdash; Do not display matches.
* -t, --test &mdash; Do not perform substitutions, just print results.
* -v, --version &mdash; Display the program version.

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