sd.md

sd(1)

find & replace

Options

-p                # preview changes (dry-run)
-F                # treat FIND and REPLACE_WITH args as literal strings
-f                # Regex flags. May be combined like `-f mc`
                    # c - case-sensitive
                    # e - disable multi-line matching
                    # i - case-insensitive
                    # m - multi-line matching
                    # s - make '.' match newlines
                    # w - match full words only

Examples

sd 'foo' 'bar' file.txt                                 # inline-replace foo with bar in file.txt
fd -e json . path/to/project -x sd 'foo' 'bar'          # inline-replace foo with bar in all json files
echo 'foo    ' | sd '\s+$'                              # trim trailing whitespace