TXR Alternatives

TXR is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to TXR for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Haiku apps. The best TXR alternative is Perl, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like TXR are AWK, Xidel, GNU sed and Gema.

TXR alternatives are mainly Programming Languages but may also be Text Editors. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of TXR.

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TXR

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Perl
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Free • Open Source
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75 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 TXR.
- - Perl is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to TXR.
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Shell integration
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AWK
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9 AWK alternatives
If you are like many computer users, you would frequently like to make changes in various text files wherever certain patterns appear, or extract data from parts of certain lines while discarding the rest.
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1. PortableAWK can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
2. Support for scriptingAWK supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
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Xidel
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Free • Open Source
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4 Xidel alternatives
Xidel is an open-source command line tool to download x/html pages and then extract data from them using css 3 selectors, xpath 2 or pattern-matching templates.
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1. Command line interfaceXidel either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
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GNU sed
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Free • Open Source
Text Editor
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9 GNU sed alternatives
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...
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Regex substitution
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Gema
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Free • Open Source
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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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Text processing
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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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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Bracmat Features
1. PortableBracmat can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Text processing
Natural Language Processing
Pattern matching
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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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SNR (Search-n-Replace) Features

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gsar - General Search And Replace Features