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		chmln on April 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Bsed – Simple, English syntax on top of P... 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 wrangling with sed's quirks. For more features, you're better off with sed. But if you're like me and only really use sed for find/replace, you will have a good time with sd.

asicsp on April 1, 2019 [–]

oh ok, I missed that line ;)

this is like 'tr' in syntax and simplicity, instead of character change, you have character-sequence change and regex has more features than sed

grep already has equivalent ripgrep implemented in Rust, I think soon we will have holy trinity grep/sed/awk equivalents in Rust

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