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sd - s[earch] & d[isplace]
sd is a simple, user-friendly find & replace command line tool.
Features
Painless regular expressions
Use regex syntax that you already know from JavaScript, Python, and Rust. No need to learn special syntax or eccentrisms of sed or awk. Easily access your captured groups with $1, $2.
String-literal mode
In string-literal mode, you don't need to escape any special characters - its simply unnecessary.
Easy to read, easy to write
Find & replace expressions are split up and in most cases unescaped, which contributes to readability and makes it easier to spot errors in your regexes.
Comparison to sed
Although sed has a nice regex syntax with -r, it is not portable and doesn't work on, say, MacOS or Solaris. Also, sed is far more powerful. Focusing on just finding and replacing allows sd to make this common task far more straightforward.
Some cherry-picked examples, where sd shines:
- Replace newlines with commas:
sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\r/,/g'vssd -r '\r' ','