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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+'Search and replace strings in Glyph names. Strings can be regular expressions'
+__url__ = 'https://github.com/silnrsi/pysilfont'
+__copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) 2015 SIL International (https://www.sil.org)'
+__license__ = 'Released under the MIT License (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)'
+__author__ = 'David Raymond'
+
+from silfont.core import execute
+import re
+
+argspec = [
+    ('ifont',{'help': 'Input font file'}, {'type': 'infont'}),
+    ('ofont',{'help': 'Output font file','nargs': '?' }, {'type': 'outfont', 'def': 'new'}),
+    ('search',{'help': 'Expression to search for'}, {}),
+    ('replace',{'help': 'Expression to replace with'}, {}),    
+    ('-l','--log',{'help': 'Log file'}, {'type': 'outfile', 'def': 'searchNReplace.log'})]
+
+def doit(args) :
+    font=args.ifont
+    search=args.search
+    replace=args.replace
+    logf = args.log
+    
+    changes=False
+    for glyph in font :
+        newname = re.sub(search, replace, glyph)
+        if newname != glyph :
+            font[glyph].glyphname=newname
+            changes=True
+            logf.write('Glyph %s renamed to %s\n' % (glyph,newname))
+    logf.close()
+    if changes :
+        return font
+    else :
+        return
+
+def cmd() : execute("FF",doit,argspec) 
+if __name__ == "__main__": cmd()