Alternatives to sd
Replace text with a focused command-line tool. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
sd
Replace text with a focused command-line tool.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as sd.
GNU sed
The GNU stream editor for filtering and transforming text from files or pipelines.
GNU sed is the standard stream editor on almost every Linux system and covers far more text transformations than sd, but its terse syntax takes longer to learn.
sad
A command-line batch search and replace tool that shows a diff before changes are applied.
sad adds a diff preview before changes and selective replacement through fzf, but it lists only macOS and Linux and needs fzf for interactive selection.
fastmod
A fast command-line tool for interactive regex search and replace across a large codebase.
fastmod focuses on interactive regex search and replace across a codebase with review of each change, rather than quick one-shot replacements.
Serpl
A terminal interface for searching and replacing text across a whole project folder.
Serpl moves replacement into a terminal interface with project-wide preview and case preservation, and requires ripgrep to be installed.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
ripgrep
Searches a whole directory tree for a pattern in a fraction of the time grep takes, and skips what gitignore says to skip.
sttr
A cross-platform command-line app for running string transformations, encodings and hashes on text.
choose
A command-line tool for selecting fields from text, meant as a simpler alternative to cut and awk.
GNU Coreutils
The core GNU file, shell and text utilities, including ls, cp, mv and sort.
fd
Finds files by name without the argument soup that find requires, and it is much faster.
ripgrep-all
ripgrep that can also search inside PDFs, Office documents, ebooks, zip files, databases and subtitles.
