uutils/sed

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Rewrite of sed in Rust

Stars: 106
Forks: 28
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 29
Avg merge: 18h 23m
Merged PRs (30d): 13

Dominant language: Rust
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
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29 open issues indexed

`sed -i` treats multiple files as one continuous stream Open

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uutils/sed#567 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
l command: the wrap width comes from the terminal size, and -l is ignored Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

uutils/sed#551 · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Improper sed -i Behavior Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

uutils/sed#549 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2026
Back-references are rejected in byte (C locale) mode Open

good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

uutils/sed#543 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
--posix should disable the GNU regular expression escapes (\? \+ \| \w \s) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

uutils/sed#542 · Opened Aug 29, 2026
Ranges: a numeric first address that has already been passed never latches Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

uutils/sed#541 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 29, 2026
s/// replacement: implement the \U \L \u \l \E case-conversion escapes Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

uutils/sed#540 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Change internal representation of commands into an `enum` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

uutils/sed#538 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Adjust record separator when --zero-terminated is specified Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

uutils/sed#530 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Remove duplicated archive from release Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

uutils/sed#452 · Opened May 30, 2026
fast_io.rs: use sendfile or splice if copy_file_range is not supported Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

uutils/sed#443 · Opened May 25, 2026
in-place option uses different format Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

uutils/sed#425 · 1 comment · Opened May 13, 2026
Add `R` command (read one line from file) Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

uutils/sed#394 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Collating Symbol `[.` `.]` Error Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

uutils/sed#322 · Opened Feb 23, 2026
Equivalence Class Symbol `[=` `=]` Error Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

uutils/sed#321 · Opened Feb 23, 2026
quantifier following NO atom Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

uutils/sed#290 · Opened Feb 5, 2026
`g` and `G` discrepancy when the patten space is not set Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

uutils/sed#266 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 18, 2026
multiple `Ctrl-d` is required to exit when reading stdin Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

uutils/sed#265 · Opened Jan 18, 2026
Extra newline character to last line. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

uutils/sed#258 · Opened Jan 12, 2026
handles multiple exchange commands differently from GNU (pattern space truncation) Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

uutils/sed#253 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 11, 2026
POSIX mode incorrectly rejects i\(text) format Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

uutils/sed#252 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 11, 2026
l command uses different escape format than GNU Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

uutils/sed#249 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 11, 2026
rejects address ranges for i and a commands (GNU accepts them) Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

uutils/sed#248 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 11, 2026
sed -i "s/pub const B50: crate::speed_t =.*;/pub const B50: crate::speed_t = 50;/" mod.rs sed: <script argument 1>:1:1: error: invalid command code `m' Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

uutils/sed#229 · Opened Dec 19, 2025
Misreads paths as commands Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

uutils/sed#165 · Opened Sep 25, 2025
`--posix -e 'a\bar'` causes an error Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

uutils/sed#144 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 25, 2025
different error message than with GNU when "-i" and "pipe" are passed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

uutils/sed#136 · Opened Aug 24, 2025
Feature request: publish via scoop Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

uutils/sed#61 · 4 comments · Opened May 3, 2025
Dependency Dashboard Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

uutils/sed#3 · Opened Feb 1, 2025

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