GNU sed Alternatives

GNU sed is described as 'sed (stream editor) is a Unix utility that parses text and implements a programming language which can apply transformations to such text. It reads input line by line (sequentially), applying the operation which has been specified via the command line (or a sed script), and then' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are nine alternatives to GNU sed for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Windows Command Prompt apps. The best GNU sed alternative is Perl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like GNU sed are NimbleText, fnr.exe, Gema and TXR.

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Perl
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Free • Open Source
Programming Language
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Windows
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73 Perl alternatives
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language with over 22 years of development.
- - Perl is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to GNU sed.
- - Perl is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to GNU sed.
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NimbleText
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Freemium • Proprietary
Text Editor
Windows
Online
10 NimbleText alternatives
NimbleText is a text manipulation and code generation tool available online or as a free download. It magnifies your ability to perform incredible feats of text and data wrangling.
- - NimbleText is the most popular Web-based alternative to GNU sed.
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1. PortableNimbleText can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Code generation
Text-manipulation
fnr.exe
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
22 fnr.exe alternatives
Open Source tool to find/replace text in multiple files. Extremely simple to use. Command line support to run Replace using batch file.

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Single file download - fnr.exe (127kb) Replace text in multiple files using windows application or through command line F.
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fnr.exe Features
Search and Replace
Support for regular expressions
Gema
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
13 Gema alternatives
Gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. In general, it reads an input file and copies it to an output file, while performing certain transformations to the data as specified by a set of patterns defined by the user.
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TXR
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8 TXR alternatives
TXR is a pragmatic, convenient data munging language oriented toward processing of text from files or streams, using multiple programming paradigms. It is influenced by concepts from text processing languages such as awk or perl, pattern matching concepts from logic/AI...
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1. Command line interfaceTXR either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. PortableTXR can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
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Pattern matching
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SNR (Search-n-Replace)
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
Windows Command Prompt
5 SNR (Search-n-Replace) alternatives
SNR is a free Windows command-line utility that performs multiple string-replacement operations on a data file in a single pass.
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SNR (Search-n-Replace) Features
1. Command line interfaceSNR (Search-n-Replace) either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
2. Batch EditingSNR (Search-n-Replace) allows you to select multiple items (tasks, files, images etc) and edit their properties all at once.
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Bracmat
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
4 Bracmat alternatives
Programming language for symbolic computation with extraordinary combination of pattern matching features: tree patterns, associative patterns and expressions embedded in patterns.
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1. PortableBracmat can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Text processing
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gsar - General Search And Replace
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4 gsar - General Search And Replace alternatives
gsar is a utility for searching for and --- optionally --- replacing strings in both text and binary files. The search and replace strings can contain all kinds of characters (0--255), i.e. Ctrl characters and extended ASCII as well.
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gsar - General Search And Replace Features
1. Command line interfacegsar - General Search And Replace either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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Procedural Text Edit
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
Linux
3 Procedural Text Edit alternatives
Text processing tool with a powerful and easy to learn language.
- - Procedural Text Edit is the most popular commercial alternative to GNU sed.
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