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Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)

31 mentions on Hacker News by 25 people: 7 stories, 24 comments · first 2018-12-26 · latest 2026-03-24

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  1. sd exists, dunno but awk. https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by scns · 2026-03-24 · in Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)
  2. There is sd, not a drop in replacement though. https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by scns · 2025-06-18 · in Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust
  3. …for example). I've switched to sd[1] because it basically just works as I expect every time. [1]: https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by thiht · 2025-03-20 · in fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
  4. …the install which makes simple sed-type operations more obvious / easier (for some value of easy). https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by leetrout · 2024-09-05 · in Desed: Demystify and debug your sed scripts
  5. …Perl regexes are maximalist but AWK regexes aren't? Or is it the complicated syntax (REGEX of [sd]( https://github.com/chmln/sd ) is fine?)? Or is it because "it's a forest"? So I suppose if it only had half of the current regexes, then it…
    comment by verdona · 2024-07-16
  6. Feels similar to `sd` ( https://github.com/chmln/sd ) which in my mind was the first “replace” version of ripgrep grep -> ripgrep sed -> sd
    comment by malthejorgensen · 2024-05-23 · in Amber: A code search and replace tool
  7. …flow too much. I'm glad people are posting other options here, I'm looking forward to trying them. https://github.com/chmln/sd/issues/62
    comment by ForkMeOnTinder · 2023-11-26 · in Ripgrep 14 Released
  8. …+ sd is a pretty good workflow if a shell glob isn't good enough to target the files you want. https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by mirashii · 2023-11-26 · in Ripgrep 14 Released
  9. …instead of sed. [1]: https://github.com/ogham/exa [2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [3]: https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by alwillis · 2023-06-28 · in macOS command-line tools you might not know about
  10. …with Perl, it is 2023. If you're jonesing for a sed replacement (it even has capture groups) try: https://github.com/chmln/sd Worth being aware of: https://github.com/theryangeary/choose https://github.com/nushell/nushell
    comment by recuter · 2023-01-19 · in The State of the Awk (2020)
  11. …that one pretty often, so maybe my first managed script will be one which symlinks binaries :) [0] https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by pedrovhb · 2022-12-31 · in SD: My script directory
  12. …in 2009-2010 , installing it and switching over entirely within about five minutes. Modern sed: https://github.com/chmln/sd Modern grep: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
    comment by petepete · 2022-11-07 · in Being Ridiculed for My Open Source Project (2013)
  13. Nice tool but the name is a bit unfortunate: https://github.com/chmln/sd (a modern sed alternative)
    comment by eterps · 2022-09-16 · in sd – a cozy nest for your scripts
  14. https://github.com/chmln/sd Corrected url
    comment by mutant · 2022-05-21 · in A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’
  15. It's fd, ncdu and sd (sed alternative) for me. https://github.com/chmln/sd https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
    comment by girishso · 2022-05-20 · in A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’
  16. …power steering, and maybe throwing in a new stereo and a paint job. sed vs. sd, for example https://github.com/chmln/sd The semi-lovable but reliable old jalopy overhauled to match modern practices.
    comment by b3morales · 2021-05-28 · in Replacements for existing software written in Rust
  17. …of the coreutils, though, so this would be outside of the scope of at least this project. There is https://github.com/chmln/sd written in Rust, but it's far from a sed replacement – it's reducing it to search and replace for fixed strings,…
    comment by bewuethr · 2021-03-09 · in Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
  18. sd(1) looks super cute. https://github.com/chmln/sd Very UNIX-y imo.
    comment by kohtatsu · 2020-05-17 · in Common *nix commands written in Rust
  19. …GUI with blinks and flashes everywhere. some CLI tools have a good UI, some don't. See for example https://github.com/chmln/sd )
    comment by southerntofu · 2019-07-28 · in A Comscore Company Distributes a MITM Proxy Spyware Compromising Users Security
  20. Shameless plug - I also wrote https://github.com/chmln/sd to replace my use of sed.
    comment by chmln · 2019-05-21 · in Lsd: The next gen ls command
  21. …subset of sed features) [1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi... [2] https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by asicsp · 2019-04-16 · in Ripgrep 11 Released
  22. Not to derail this submission, but thanks for the consideration! See the first sentence at https://github.com/chmln/sd#comparison-to-sed tl;dr its only find & replace with smart defaults and easy, straightforward syntax because I hated…
    comment by chmln · 2019-04-01 · in Show HN: Bsed – Simple, English syntax on top of Perl text processing
  23. Shameless plug for even terser syntax: https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by chmln · 2019-04-01 · in Show HN: Bsed – Simple, English syntax on top of Perl text processing
  24. Shameless plug - you may also wanna try https://github.com/chmln/sd :)
    comment by chmln · 2019-03-22 · in Programming Language Rankings: January 2019