ned: text replacing tool

What is ned ? 🔗

Like grep but with powerful replace capabilities. Unlike sed, as it isn’t restricted to line oriented editing.

More information: https://github.com/nevdelap/ned .

Usage 🔗

Recursively search starting in the current directory, ignoring case:

ned --ignore-case --recursive '^[dl]og' .

Search always showing colored output:

ned --colors '^[dl]og' .

Search never showing colored output:

ned --colors=never '^[dl]og' .

Search ignoring certain files:

ned --recursive --exclude '*.htm' '^[dl]og' .

Simple replace:

ned 'dog' --replace 'cat' .

Replace using numbered group references:

ned 'the ([a-z]+) dog and the ([a-z]+) dog' --replace 'the $2 dog and the $1 dog' .

Replace changing case:

ned '([a-z]+) dog' --case-replacements --replace '\U$1\E! dog' --stdout .

Preview results of a find and replace without updating the target files:

ned '^[sb]ad' --replace 'happy' --stdout .

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