/iSed

Interactive sed, to have a better idea of what you are going to change with sed.

Primary LanguageShellGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

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v0.1.0

iSed (interactive sed) is a small script that allows you to see what your sed command will change, before making those changes.

The script wraps sed and icdiff.

Demo

A demo of the script running in the terminal A demo of the script running in the terminal

Installation

  • Install icdiff using pip.
pip install icdiff
  • Clone this repository.
git clone https://github.com/Mochitto/iSed.git
  • Turn the script into an executable.
  • Move it to your bin directory to run it with iSed.

Usage

iSed has the same interface as sed.

Once you define your command, you will be shown a git-style diff, where you can evaluate if to continue or not.

To do this, the script pipes the output of sed to a temporary file, that overwrites the original if the changes are deemed correct.

Notice!

It will not prevent you from changing the file in place with sed's -i flag.
It's also important to put the file to change as last argument (I'm new to scripting, hopefully someone can help make this better).

iSed -r "s/foo/bar/g" my_file.txt

Contributing

Pull requests are super welcome. 💕
For major changes, please open an issue first, to discuss what you would like to change.

License

This project's license: GPL3.

You can also find the license of icdiff here.