Text Processing Terminal Tools
Text Processing tools can be traced back to the early days of computing, where they served as essential utilities for handling and manipulating text data.
These tools aid in reading, writing, and modifying text with the explosion of data in today's digital era, text processing tools have become indispensable.
They assist developers in parsing, filtering, and analyzing text and has a plethora of applications, ranging from simple scripting to complex natural language processing tasks.
Below are a list of terminal tools that have text processing capabilities.
docfd
TUI multiline fuzzy document finder.
TUI multiline fuzzy document finder.
emeraldian
A terminal UI for Obsidian with graphical live-preview notes
A terminal UI for Obsidian with graphical live-preview notes
igrep
Interactive Grep.
Interactive Grep.
jid
A JSON incremental digger with auto completions and expressions.
A JSON incremental digger with auto completions and expressions.
matterhorn
A featured rich terminal client for the Mattermost chat system.
A featured rich terminal client for the Mattermost chat system.
miller
an all in one swiss army knife for data processing.
an all in one swiss army knife for data processing.
mq
jq-like command-line tool for markdown processing.
jq-like command-line tool for markdown processing.
pandoc
a universal markup converter.
a universal markup converter.
pdfgrep
A command line utility to search text in PDF files.
A command line utility to search text in PDF files.
repgrep
An interactive replacer for ripgrep.
An interactive replacer for ripgrep.
rga
Ripgrep, but can also search in docs, PDFs, E-Books, zip, tar.gz, etc.
Ripgrep, but can also search in docs, PDFs, E-Books, zip, tar.gz, etc.
ripgrep
A recursive directory search tool using regex patterns.
A recursive directory search tool using regex patterns.
rura
An Interactive TUI scratchpad for building shell pipelines.
An Interactive TUI scratchpad for building shell pipelines.
sauva
A unicode explorer and previewer in the terminal.
A unicode explorer and previewer in the terminal.
scooter
Interactive find and replace in the terminal.
Interactive find and replace in the terminal.
sd
Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)
Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative)
serpl
A simple TUI for search and replace, akin to VS Code.
A simple TUI for search and replace, akin to VS Code.
sig
interactive grep. (for streaming)
interactive grep. (for streaming)
srgn
A syntax‑aware grep alternative with code edits.
A syntax‑aware grep alternative with code edits.
sttr
A CLI/TUI tool to perform 30+ string transformations on text.
A CLI/TUI tool to perform 30+ string transformations on text.
swpui
A minimal utility to preview search-and-replacement of text.
A minimal utility to preview search-and-replacement of text.
terminaltexteffects
Inline Visual Effects in the Terminal.
Inline Visual Effects in the Terminal.
ugrep
A fast grep replacement for archives, documents and fuzzy search.
A fast grep replacement for archives, documents and fuzzy search.
up
A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview.
A tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview.
vy
Explore and query JSON and YAML, right in your terminal.
Explore and query JSON and YAML, right in your terminal.
xled
sed and awk for tabular data.
sed and awk for tabular data.
yq
A lightweight and portable command-line YAML, JSON, INI and XML processor.
A lightweight and portable command-line YAML, JSON, INI and XML processor.
zsv
A SIMD accelerated CLI for querying and exploring CSV data.
A SIMD accelerated CLI for querying and exploring CSV data.
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