bat VS sd

That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that.

[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

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Good find, thanks! I'll check if I prefer it to moar.

As for bat, according to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-bat-on-windows, the Chocolatey package simply installs `less` alongside `bat`. Seems like a good idea, but I haven't tried it.

Try bat (it’s like cat but better) https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

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For this reason I have a zsh function in my .zshrc with bat (which pages by default, if it's longer than your console height):

https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#highlighting---help-messages

  # in your .bashrc/.zshrc/*rc

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I wanted to like sd but it doesn't support my main use case of recursive search/replace. Imagine every time you wanted to grep some files you had to build a find+xargs+rg pipeline... it just takes me out of the flow too much. I'm glad people are posting other options here, I'm looking forward to trying them.

https://github.com/chmln/sd/issues/62

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https://github.com/chmln/sd ftw (sed rebuilt in rust, much easier imho) ;-)

sd is a more intuitive alternative to sed, focussing on making find and replace easier - which is all I ever used sed for.

https://github.com/chmln/sd

If it's in multiple files? To be honest, I'd just use a terminal and sed (or sd if you want something with a more friendly interface).

I love the idea and I'll try it out, but a heads up in case the author is around: the name sd clashes with another tool [0], which works as an alternative to sed.

I use that one pretty often, so maybe my first managed script will be one which symlinks binaries :)

[0] https://github.com/chmln/sd

sd is a find-and-replace CLI, and you can use it as a replacement for sed and awk. It is way more user-friendly and modern. It is also magnitudes faster than sed.