Quick Start

🏃 Quick Start Tutorial

This page redirects to the full Quick Start Tutorial.

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Please visit the Quick Start Tutorial for a complete 10-lesson guided tutorial covering:

• Lesson 1: Your First Replacement
• Lesson 2: Safe Testing with Dry-Run
• Lesson 3: Working with Multiple Files
• Lesson 4: Using Case-Insensitive Search
• Lesson 5: Working with Word Boundaries
• Lesson 6: Your First Rollback
• Lesson 7: Working with Directories
• Lesson 8: Excluding Files and Directories
• Lesson 9: Setting Safety Limits
• Lesson 10: Putting It All Together

30-Second Quick Start

# Install sr
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paulmann/sr-search-replace/main/sr.sh -o sr
chmod +x sr

# Basic usage: replace 'old' with 'new' in all .txt files
./sr "*.txt" "old" "new"

# Always test first with --dry-run
./sr --dry-run "*.html" "old-domain.com" "new-domain.com"

# Undo changes if needed
./sr --rollback

See the full Quick Start Tutorial for step-by-step lessons.