sd: Intuitive Command-Line Find and Replace Tool as sed Alternative
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Summary
sd is an intuitive command-line tool for find and replace operations, designed as a modern alternative to sed and awk. It offers painless regular expressions using familiar JavaScript/Python syntax, string-literal mode for non-regex operations, and easy-to-read expressions without complex escaping requirements. The tool aims to improve developer productivity with a cleaner, more user-friendly interface for text manipulation tasks.
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String-literal mode. Non-regex find & replace. No more backslashes or remembering which characters are special
Easy to read, easy to write. Find & replace expressions are split up, which makes them easy to read and write
Why use it over any existing tools? Forget about dealing with quirks of sed or awk - get productive immediately
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