codebox: File utilities

File utility tools

codebox.file_tools.replace_in_files(files_map: Mapping[str, str], replace_map: Mapping[str, str])

Replaces a series of matches in a collection of files

Parameters

• file_paths (dict) – A dictionary where the key is the file source and the value is a file target. If the target is set to an empty string, the original file will be replaced

• replace_map (dict) – A dictionary where the keys are the regex to be matched and the value is the content to replace the match with

Example

>>> file_map = {'/tmp/source.txt': '/tmp/destination.txt'}
>>> replace_map = {'.*foo.*': 'bar'}
>>> replace_in_files(file_map, replace_map)