Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminal

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 5:28 PM UTC

oulipo wrote: post #7

I'm using this quickly put-together shell script called replace #!/usr/bin/env bash # Function to escape special characters for sed escape_sed_string() { printf '%s\n' "$1" | gsed -e 's/[]\/$*.^[]/\\&/g' } help() { gum style --foreground cyan --italic "\ Usage (everything optional, you will be prompted):\n\ $0\n\ --ext .js --ext .ts\n\ --from \"source string\"\n\ --to \"replacement string\"\n\ --dir somePath" } # Par…

Post by sockaddr » Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 5:29 PM UTC

tomschafer wrote: post #9

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #5

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Not affiliated, I just built a little tool to make my life easier and thought I'd share

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 5:29 PM UTC

dsjkvf wrote: post #2

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Post by bloopernova » Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 5:31 PM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 5:37 PM UTC

bloopernova wrote: post #18

A useful feature of bash and zsh is the "edit command". The standard shortcut is "ctrl-x ctrl-e". It opens the current command line in $EDITOR, which often defaults to vim.