Sed Alternatives Debate
Commenters discuss a new sed-like tool (with JS regex syntax and cross-platform features) as a potential replacement for traditional sed, questioning its advantages, praising sed's capabilities, and sharing text processing tips with sed, awk, and Perl.
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What is the advantage of this over sed?
I see. Thank you for the explanation. I didn't know about that feature of sed.
Nice, I will give a try. Seems a good ‘sed’ replacement
You, are a genius. I didn't know sed could do such things, awesome!
You'd think no one actually uses sed any more...
It's not perfect but I like sed for this.
Or sed, which for many editing purposes is probably easier to use.
Does it have capabilities beyond sed, or just shorter syntax?
I'm pretty sure sed could have saved them the trouble.
Why is this better than using sed?