blog/content/posts/sed-text-substitution-in-discord.md

+++ title = "Text Substitution in Discord using sed" date = "2021-03-25T18:48:15-05:00" author = "bbaovanc" tags = ["discord", "discord-tricks"] keywords = ["discord", "sed", "text", "replacement"]

description = """ Discord has (very primitive) support for text replacement using sed syntax. """

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How-to

Example Video

If you send a message using sed substitution format (s/old text/new text), Discord will execute it on the message you've last sent.

Caveats

• Regex is not supported
• Global substitution is not supported

This post was adapted from gitea:bbaovanc/discord-tricks