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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sed

This article spotlights alternative tools to sed.

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The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.

Alternatives to sed
sadSpace Age seD
sdIntuitive find and replace CLI
Sed-GoImplementation of sed in Go
ruplacerFind and replace text in source files
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Keylar
Keylar
7 months ago
Have we missed any open source alternatives to sed? Please let us know!" Read more »

Your missing the command-line tool called sad. It’s written in Rust.

PenguinMania
PenguinMania
7 months ago
Reply to  Keylar

So many of these new-generation tools are written in Rust