sd

MIT intentional sed subset — search & displace

Rust / Terminal · OSS/MIT · 7.4k

Reviewed 2026-09-12 · last push 2026-02-25 · repo checked 2026-10-19

What's Good

MIT. chmln/sd. Literal-first (and regex) search & displace with a short CLI, preview (`-p`), and sensible escaping. Complements ripgrep/fd for the replace step after you found the hit. Source github.com/chmln/sd.

The Catch

Vs sed: intentional *subset*, not a full sed dialect — no sed scripts, hold space, or every GNU extension. Vs ripgrep (search) and fd (names): sd *rewrites*, it does not search a tree or find filenames. Keep sed for the ancient one-liners that already work.

Verdict

MIT sed subset. Free forever; replace text without relearning sed.

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