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Intuitive find and replace CLI (sed alternative)
- jiehong 1y agoIf you use fish, have a look at `string replace` as a built-in and related [0]. [0]: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/string.html https://fishshell.com/docs/current/cmds/string.html
- Myrmornis 1y agoRegardless of the appeal to unix philosophy in their docs, sd has never stuck with me because it doesn't natively support replace across a project/ multiple files, and that's what you always want to do. Instead I pipe `rg -R --json` output into a script (rg does do replacement, but only on the stdout, not in-place)
- assbuttbuttass 1y agoUse find? find -exec sd before after \;
- mirashii 1y agoI'm not sure I understand what you're saying. You can pass a list of files to sd, `sd before after **/*.py` to replace in all the python files in your project. That's about as native of a replace across multiple files you could possibly want.
- karmakaze 1y agoThe sed extraction example is more complicated than it needs to be: echo "sample with /path/" | sed -E 's|.*(/.*/)|\1|g' The search/replace separator doesn't have to be '/'. I can't see myself using this for a performance bump given that I already know vi, thus sed expressions.
- sudahtigabulan 1y agoThe newline replacement stopped me in my tracks: sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/,/g' Nobody does that with sed, when there are way simpler alternatives, like paste and tr.
- flowingfocus 1y agoFor cases I am not 100% sure I want to replace all occurrences, I prefer scooter: https://github.com/thomasschafer/scooter https://github.com/thomasschafer/scooter
- ctippett 1y agoI'm partial to f2. https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2 https://github.com/ayoisaiah/f2