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

Options (3)

-i, --ignore-caseboolean

Recursively search starting in the current directory, ignoring case

Example: ned {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} {{[-R|--recursive]}} '{{^[dl]og}}' {{.}}

-R, --recursiveboolean

Recursively search starting in the current directory, ignoring case

Example: ned {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} {{[-R|--recursive]}} '{{^[dl]og}}' {{.}}

-r, --replaceboolean

Simple replace

Example: ned '{{dog}}' {{[-r|--replace]}} '{{cat}}' {{.}}

Recursively search starting in the current directory, ignoring case

ned [-i|--ignore-case] [-R|--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 [-R|--recursive] --exclude '*.htm' '^[dl]og' .

Simple replace

ned 'dog' [-r|--replace] 'cat' .

Replace using numbered group references

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

Replace changing case

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

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

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