SoptikHa2/desed

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1216 stars · 26 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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Desed is a terminal TUI debugger for GNU sed scripts, written in Rust. It lets users step through sed execution forward and backward, set breakpoints, preview variable values, and hot-reload scripts while editing.

Use cases

• debug complex sed scripts
• step through sed script execution
• set breakpoints in sed scripts
• understand what a sed substitution does before it runs
• inspect pattern space and hold space while debugging sed
• hot reload sed script while debugging

When to choose

• you write or maintain nontrivial sed scripts and need an interactive debugger
• you want to understand why a sed one-liner behaves unexpectedly
• you prefer a TUI with vim-like keybindings over sed --debug output

When to avoid

• you only need simple one-line sed substitutions
• you need a guaranteed-exact debugger, since desed emulates sed to guess the current line
• you need a debugger for awk or other text tools

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

developer-tools terminal-ui interpreter developer-tools text-editors bsd cli cross-platform sed debugger tui rust unix command-line linux macos

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