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.\" Manpage for bpeg.
.\" Contact bruce@bruce-hill.com to correct errors or typos.
.TH man 1 "Sep 12, 2020" "0.1" "bpeg manual page"
.SH NAME
bpeg \- Bruce's Parsing Expression Grammar tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B bpeg
[\fI-h\fR|\fI--help\fR]
[\fI-v\fR|\fI--verbose\fR]
[\fI-d\fR|\fI--define\fR \fI<name>\fR=\fI<pattern>\fR]
[\fI-r\fR|\fI--replace\fR \fI<replacement>\fR]
[\fI-g\fR|\fI--grammar\fR \fI<grammar file>\fR]
\fI<pattern\fR
[[--] \fI<input file>\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBbpeg\fR is a tool that matches parsing expression grammars using a custom syntax.
.SH OPTIONS
.B \--verbose
Print debugging information.
.B \--define <name>=<pattern>
Define a grammar rule.
.B \--replace <replacement>
Replace all occurrences of the main pattern with the given string.
.B \--grammar <grammar file>
Load the grammar from the given file.
.B \--help
Print the usage and exit.
.B <pattern>
The main pattern for bpeg to match. By default, this pattern
is in "string literal" mode (i.e. a backslash is requres for
non-literal patterns). The default mode is to find \fBall\fR
occurrences of the pattern and highlight them.
.B <input file>
The input file to search (default: stdin).
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B
ls | bpeg foo
Find files containing the string "foo"
.TP
.B
ls | bpeg '.c\\$' -r '.h'
Find files ending with ".c" and replace the extension with ".h"
.TP
.B
bpeg -g grammar.bpeg '\\myThing' my_file.txt
Find ocurrences of the grammar rule "myThing" in the file \fBmy_file.txt\fR
using the grammar rules defined in \fBgrammar.bpeg\fR
.SH AUTHOR
Bruce Hill (bruce@bruce-hill.com)