amber

amber is a code search and replace tool written by Rust. This tool is inspired by ack, ag, and other grep-like tools.

Features

Useful default settings

• Recursively search from the current directory
• Ignore vcs directories (.git, .hg, .svn, .bzr)
• Ignore binary files
• Output by the colored format

Multi-threaded searching

Large files ( > 1MB by default) are divided and searched in parallel.

Interactive replacing

amber can replace a keyword over directories (traditionally by find ... | xargs sed -i '...') . You can decide to do replacing or not interactively.

Install

Download from release page, and extract to the directory in PATH.

Usage

Two commands (ambs/ambr) are provided. ambs means "amber search", and ambr means "amber replace". The search keyword is not regular expression by default. If you want to use regular expression, add --regex.

ambs keyword                  // recursively search 'keyword' from the current directory. 
ambs keyword path             // recursively search 'keyword' from 'path'.
ambr keyword replacement      // recursively search 'keyword' from the current directory, and replace to 'replacement' interactively.
ambr keyword replacement path // recursively search 'keyword' from 'path', and replace to 'replacement' interactively.

amber replace interactively by default. If the keyword is found, the following prompt is shown, and wait. If you input 'y', 'Y', 'Yes', the keyword is replaced. 'a', 'A', 'All' means replacing all keywords non-interactively.

Replace keyword? ( Yes[Y], No[N], All[A], Quit[Q] ):

Benchmark

Environment

• CPU: Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.90GHz
• MEM: 256GB
• OS : CentOS 7.2

Data

• source1: https://github.com/torvalds/linux ( 52998files, 2.2GB )
• source2: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/jawiki/latest/jawiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2 ( 1file, 8.5GB )

Result

grep --color=auto -r EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL ./data/linux  0.27s user 0.41s system  37% cpu 1.825 total
ag   --nogroup       EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL ./data/linux  1.19s user 2.84s system 167% cpu 2.404 total
pt   --nogroup       EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL ./data/linux  3.37s user 0.94s system 228% cpu 1.883 total
ambs                 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL ./data/linux  2.55s user 0.81s system 179% cpu 1.872 total

grep --color=auto -r "Quick Search" ./data/jawiki-latest-pages-articles.xml   0.82s user  1.68s system   99% cpu  2.495 total
ag   --nogroup       "Quick Search" ./data/jawiki-latest-pages-articles.xml  15.38s user  0.89s system  100% cpu 16.265 total
pt   --nogroup       "Quick Search" ./data/jawiki-latest-pages-articles.xml  12.49s user  1.13s system  100% cpu 13.548 total
ambs                 "Quick Search" ./data/jawiki-latest-pages-articles.xml   5.83s user 10.82s system 2304% cpu  0.723 total