Interactive Multiple File Search and Replace using fd aka fdfind and sad instead of sed; use sd for just stdin replacement; also check out diff-so-fancy

tl;dr: fdfind . | sad "locale" "localBLAH" --pager 'delta -s' <– use tab to toggle select, Y to execute, q to quit without doing anything, affected files are printed to stdout

Details:

fdfind is fd on macOS and other Unix systems. Ubuntu already has an fdcommand so the package is renamed on ubuntu:
- https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
sad:
- https://github.com/ms-jpq/sad
The inspiration for sad was sd (“If you just want to edit the shell stream, I would recommend sd, it uses the same concept, but its more for in stream edits. sad was inspired by my initial usage of sd.”:
- https://github.com/chmln/sd <– Unlike sad, sd is NOT interactive
Love the diffs from diffs-so-fancy:
- https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
I have no idea how to use vertico in emacs. See “Original Checkvist” below :-)

Discovered: May 22, 2022 18:48 Today in Command line Fun for Some Values of Fun™, combine fzf and sad to switch out your venerable but somewhat perilous sed or perl one-liner that recursively finds & replaces texts in files with a thing with a diff viewer that lets you preview what’s going to happen. <– tl;dr: fd "blah*.rb" | sad "old text" "new text" --pager s –> QUOTE from followup tweet: Side note to @ftrain: yes, OBVIOUSLY one should just do this in Emacs with vertico and C-c s p foo C-; E C-c C-p :%s/foo/bar/g RET Z Z –> fdfind on ubuntu –> fdfind . | sad "locale" "localBLAH" --pager 'delta -s' <– use tab to toggle select, Y to execute, affected files are printed to stdout