is there anything like regex101 or regexr to provide immediate feedback on results of text manipulation via the terminal? for learning

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  • RegExr

    RegExr is a HTML/JS based tool for creating, testing, and learning about Regular Expressions.

  • I have found https://regex101.com and https://regexr.com/ really helpful in learning.

  • peco

    Discontinued Simplistic interactive filtering tool [Moved to: https://github.com/peco/peco] (by lestrrat)

  • peco by @lestrrat - An interactive grep tool written in Go language.

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  • percol

    adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell

  • percol last release 2015, activity 2019

  • canything

    CUIでEmacs anythingを使うコマンド

  • canything by @keiji0 - A seminal work in interactive grep tools.

  • zaw

    zsh anything.el-like widget.

  • zaw by @nakamuray - A zsh-friendly interactive grep tool.

  • fzf

    :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

  • fzf by @junegunn - An interactive grep tool written in Go language.

  • ariadne

    Store a better zsh history and search via interactive grep (by gawells)

  • Also there is 1 active fork , ariadne:

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  • jid

    json incremental digger

  • Would you count filtering JSON data as a form of "text manipulation"? If so, then jid might also be of interest. One can get JSON-ified output from a bunch of standard UNIX commands using jc.

  • grex

    A command-line tool and Rust library with Python bindings for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases

  • Is grex any use to you?

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