`replace` a keyword in windows cmd.exe

Hi! Lovely util. Without all the drama I would’ve never come across it.

Now, I tried using it on Windows, and got really weird behaviour, until I realized that there’s actually a cmd.exe command called “replace”. I solved it by copying .../npm/replace.cmd to .../npm/replacejs.cmd. Maybe it would be good to include that alias by default? Or, if npm allows, by default on Windows systems?

[joemaller]

I’m not using it globally, but the command works perfectly in Windows cmd.exe so long as it’s either called as node_modules\.bin\replace or from a script in package.json. One Windows-specific note which might trip up the unix-fluent (me): Arguments must be enclosed in double-quotes. Single-quotes do something different in the default Window CLI.

C:\Users\joe\Desktop\replacer> node_modules\.bin\replace "foo" "bar" foobar.txt

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[wlaurance]

I have had this problem too. There are several ways to get around it.

1. make an alias in your shell to whatever you want
2. directly execute the node_module ./node_modules/.bin/replace
3. fork it, change the executable name npm install username/replace --save

I’m sure there are plenty more.