Does anyone know how ripgrep's pcre support compares to python/Perl/awk/sed for speed? I noticed it can do substitutions, so I'm curious.
Python wouldn't be a good choice for cli usage
Perl is awesome to use from cli, and it is not just simple search and replace, see my tutorial[1] if you want to see examples
sed and awk are awesome on their own for cli usage, sed is meant for line oriented tasks and awk for field oriented ones (there is overlap too) - one main difference compared to perl is that their regex is BRE/ERE which is generally faster but lacks in many features like lookarounds, non-greedy, named capture groups, etc
you could check out sd[2] for a Rust implementation of sed like search and replacement (small subset of sed features)
[1] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processi...