Gsub: A CLI tool for string substitutions in a directory

by wffurr • 5 years ago

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wffurr• 5 years ago

This tool presents itself as a much faster and ergonomic alternative to shell pipelines with sed.

e.g.

    rg foo --files-with-matches | xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'

becomes

   gsub "foo" "bar"

And runs significantly faster.

I don't know if I'll install it, but it's an interesting concept.

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