Textediting

I was editing some markdown and had to insert a new figure in the middle. The problem is that this document already has an explicit figure numbering (e.g., “Figure 5”), so changing tens of figures felt dull. I like to run small (GNU) awk scripts for this type of tasks. # update_figures.awk { if (match($0, "Figure ([0-9]+)", num)){ if (num[1] > after){ gsub("Figure ([0-9]+)", "Figure " num[1] + increase_by) } }; print $0 } This changes Figure X into Figure X + increase_by starting after the variable “after”. And we can run it as follows: ...

I needed to rename all occurrences of a pattern with another, where I knew there was no ambiguous situations. This uses ripgrep, xargs and GNU sed. source. rg old_pattern --files-with-matches | xargs sed -i 's/old_pattern/new_pattern/g'