CLANG-RENAME(1)

💅 clang-rename — the glow-up era

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for clang-rename 19, a User Command, and she's literally here to rename symbols in your C++ like a little fairy godmother 🧚✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

clang-rename — manual page for clang-rename 19. that's the name, that's the brand, that's the whole vibe 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

here's how you summon her:

USAGE: clang-rename [options] <source0> [... <sourceN>]

so you feed her some source files and some options and she does the thing. iconic behaviour, honestly 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

💜 Generic Options (the universal ones, iykyk)

• --help — shows you all the available options. and if you're feeling nosy, --help-hidden reveals even more 🫣
• --help-list — prints out a whole list of the available options. add --help-list-hidden for the hidden ones too 🙈
• --version — tells you which version of this program you're running, in case you forgot. no judgment 💅

🦋 clang-rename common options (her main character options)

• --export-fixes=<filename> — a YAML file to store suggested fixes in. she's keeping receipts 📝
• --extra-arg=<string> — an extra argument to append to the compiler command line
• --extra-arg-before=<string> — an extra argument to prepend to the compiler command line. yes it goes in front, that's the whole point 🎀
• --force — ignore nonexistent qualified names. bold. fearless. lowkey feral 🔥
• -i — overwrite the edited <file>s. so like, in place. no take-backs 🫶
• --input=<string> — a YAML file to load oldname-newname pairs from 📥
• --new-name=<string> — the new name you want to change the symbol to. the glow-up name, if you will ✨
• --offset=<uint> — locates the symbol by offset instead of by <line>:<column>. different route, same destination 🗺️
• -p <string> — build path 🛣️
• --pl — prints the locations affected by the renaming to stderr 📍
• --pn — prints the found symbol's name prior to renaming to stderr, so you know who she was before the transformation 🦋
• --qualified-name=<string> — the fully qualified name of the symbol. the whole legal government name 💜

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real talk bestie: this page is short and sweet, so there's not a lot of chaos to warn you about — but -i really does overwrite your files, so maybe double-check before you commit to the bit 😭

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and that's the whole page, no notes 💖 this was clang-rename 19, dated June 2025 — stay slaying, and go rename something cute 🎀✨🌈