This article spotlights alternative tools to sed.
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.
| Alternatives to sed | |
|---|---|
| sad | Space Age seD |
| sd | Intuitive find and replace CLI |
| Sed-Go | Implementation of sed in Go |
| ruplacer | Find and replace text in source files |
| ripgrep | Recursively search directories for a regex pattern |
| amber | Code search and replace tool |
| rep | Perform find and replace on grep-formatted lines |
| repgrep | Interactive replacer for ripgrep |
| srgn | Code surgeon for searching and manipulating text and source code |
| teip | Masking tape to help commands "do one thing well" |
Have we missed any open source alternatives to sed? Please let us know!
All the CLI tools in this series.
| Alternatives to CLI tools |
|---|
| age // awk // bc // cal // cat // cd // chmod // cksum // cloc // cmp // compress // cp // cron // curl // cut // date // dd // df // diff // dig // du // fdisk // file // find // free // ftp // grep // gzip // hexdump // history // jq // kill // less // locate // ls // lsof // make // man // more // mv / ping // ps // psql // rename // rm // sed // split // ssh // stow // strings // sudo // sysctl // tail // talk // tar // telnet // time // top // touch // traceroute // tree // uname // uniq // uptime // vi // watch // Wget // who // whois // xargs |
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Your missing the command-line tool called sad. It’s written in Rust.
That’s a good one. sad has been added!
So many of these new-generation tools are written in Rust