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

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131 points tomschafer | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 16:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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sigmonsays ◴[15 Nov 24 22:33 UTC] No.42151991[source]▶
We're losing the art of bash ``` find -type f -iname '*.go' | xargs -r -n1 sed -i 's,foo,foobar,g' ```
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lofaszvanitt ◴[16 Nov 24 06:14 UTC] No.42154761[source]▶
The problem is... if you use these on rare occasions it gets frustrating, because you have to read the manual or google everything or ask the llm again and again.

noone can remember these abbreviations

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1. feelamee ◴[17 Nov 24 02:02 UTC] No.42161368[source]▶
yes, but...

noone except your shell! Fish is perfect and very very often can guess what I want using pwd, file existence, current prompt, etc...