serpl ☆

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Description:
Simple terminal UI for search and replace

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: rust tui search replace refactoring cli

Install: brew install serpl

About:
Serpl is a terminal-based user interface (TUI) tool designed to streamline search and replace operations across multiple files. It provides an interactive, real-time preview of changes, allowing users to safely perform complex refactoring tasks without leaving the command line. This tool enhances developer productivity by combining the speed of CLI tools with the usability of a visual interface.

Key Features:

Interactive terminal UI with real-time preview
Supports regex patterns for complex matching
Live grep functionality for fast searching
Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows)

Use Cases:

Refactoring variable names across a large codebase
Bulk renaming files or cleaning up text data
Performing safe text replacements with visual confirmation

Alternatives:

sed – sed is a stream editor for filtering and transforming text, but lacks an interactive preview UI.
perl – Perl is a powerful scripting language capable of search/replace, but requires writing scripts rather than using an interactive TUI.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 14, 2025 4:37am		0	VERSION_BUMP	3444c6be
Sep 14, 2024 7:17pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	fc0b35c1