FART Reviews

Using v1.99b I seem to have some problem in W7 environment re. options -b (backup: error saving) and -p (preview; requested replacements are not reported but work without -p). Any help? Thank you, very useful tool!

Great command tool! I used to translate some titles and words from english to spanish HTML on pages generated with PLDoc (Other SourceForge project). I Don't like the animation on project's main page.

Great work! Tiny fart that works extremely fast!

Great tool unless you're going into some more complex text such as ASCII and such. One issue I'm coming across, however, is that I sometimes get a "unable to create temporary file" that gets spammed, but then it says the replacement is done and it moves onto the next file. Seeing the results APPEARS to work, so I'm assuming it spams the ability to create the file until it works, but you see the attempts made as errors. Is this assumption correct? If so, I'd imagine the errors is due to the system not deleting the previous temporary file quick enough and it spams it until the previous has been removed.

It's wonderful. It smells like roses, and can replace them with solutions.

Great tool... Easy to use and efficient.

This is an excellent tool to quick and easy replace text strings in text files. I do miss an option to remove the "spinning wheel" output (| / - \) when using the recursive command in batch files, though.

Unfortunately very buggy in the replacement string handling: can enter in a loop and generate GB of temp files with a simple (fart myfile.cfg "\\" "/") or just fail when using special chars like \,/ and others... Tested: 1.99b I suggest the alternative command tool 'gsar' from "GnuWin" project on sourceforge

fastest replacer i found yet! tested faster than repl.bat, jrepl.bat, findrepl.bat, and sfk.ext. anybody know how to handle newline char? > set newline=^& echo. > fart myfile.csv %newline% “,” myfile.csv Found 1 file(s). “,” Any idea of the correct way to do this? thx!

Very nice utility all-in-all. I just can't make it to replace "\" by "/" in a file containing a windows path. fart.exe temp.txt "\" "/" fart.exe temp.txt "\\" "/" Nothing works, all help appreciated!!!

Overall, I like it and use on a daily basis.

It might sound as a stupid solution, but if you are using the -b flag, you have to create the bak file first (add one copy command in your script). The "detected as binary" problem is also in other encodings, so you have to use the -b flag all times :-) However the good side of this app is teh fact, it is very fast even on big files.

unable to modify files with a "," in the filename from outside the directory of the file being modified.

Nice tool. Unfortunately not as useful to me as it could be because I want to change text in files managed by Visual Studio and TFS and TFS sets the readonly bit. This means I have to use attrib before and after. But very handy for turning code contract checking on and off in a hundred or so projects nonetheless.

Works great on csv. Command line batch file cleans up multiple large csv files effortlessly. Nicely done. Hint: use the -c count option to test before replacing.

Hmm.. how do you replace two consecutive blank lines, like this doesn't work: fart test.txt "\n\n" "\n" .. ??

tool detects file in utf as binary

The only standalone utility I found which can do replace in files on Windows cmd.exe, great work!

At last I've managed to get some meaningfull results from it. Some text files were successfully parsed, but some system windows xp configuration files - weren't. From the program's point, they were binary, for some reason. But when I'd tried it with -b key, it requested use --bakcup too, and this key is buggy - just continued throw out error again and again like "Error: could not remove: E:\temp\CONFIG.NT.bak" Of course, there wasn't such a file in this dir. Such a crappy piece of software.

I was struggling with fancy batch scripts that use crazy insane syntax. I didn't want to have to include any additional software for the script, but fart is tiny and doesn't require any kind of installation. Now if we could only push to have it incorporated into the windows shell.

Some problems: 1. tool detects file in utf as binary. 2. On Win7 when i use -b option, it doesn't work file1 Error: could not remove: file1.bak file2 Error: could not remove: file2.bak

Works great! I just made 2100 string replacements in 53 files from a single Windows command line.

great tool!

This works great and its very simple. I have used SED for find and replace on Win2K and needed the same functionality on 64-bit Windows. This utility does it perfectly.

yup worked for me!