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100 | 46,630 | |
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0.0 | 9.5 | |
over 1 year ago | 3 days ago | |
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MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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cw
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why GNU grep is fast
For things that are commonly and almost-ideally represented as text files, there’s a lot of Rust based alternatives are faster and have more features than the old unix/GNU tools: ripgrep, fd, cw, and you can find more in this list.
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A wc clone, written in Go
Nice, beats my old Rust wc through sheer brute force on my old 12c/24t server:
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How to learn Rust by own tiny applications?
A lot of unix-y tools have been rewritten in rust, where the usefulness comes from it being faster or having more features. Examples: bat, cw, lsd, ripgrep, diskonaut, gping. Maybe you could find an interesting program to rewrite?
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Awesome Rewrite It In Rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
cw, an optionally-multithreaded bytecount-accelerated wc clone
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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
Having written a Rust wc implementation a few years ago (https://github.com/Freaky/cw), I had a look at theirs.
It's pretty naive - a simple linewise read_until loop, a conditional to avoid word splitting and such if it's not needed, and for some reason it collects results into an array and prints when it's done rather than printing as it goes.
It doesn't support --files0-from like GNU wc, so isn't a drop-in replacement from that perspective. It also has the sadly common Rust trope of only supporting filenames that are valid UTF-8.
It doesn't seem overly slow considering its simplicity - usually trading blows with GNU and BSD wc. Perhaps the most glaring omission is the lack of a fast path for -c, which should reduce to a stat() call. Also unfortunate not to use the excellent bytecount crate to provide a very fast -l/m path.
The read_until loop also makes its memory use unpredictable compared with other wc's. If you run it on /dev/zero it will try to eat your computer.
bat
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Hired: A Modern Take on 'Ed'
That’s the same as bat:[1] one of the features is syntax highlighting. Kind of unexpected to find a concatenation program… which also does that.
[1] https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
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Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
View on GitHub
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5 Developer CLI Essentials
4. bat
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Ugrep – a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep
Good find, thanks! I'll check if I prefer it to moar.
As for bat, according to https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#using-bat-on-windows, the Chocolatey package simply installs `less` alongside `bat`. Seems like a good idea, but I haven't tried it.
- Tell HN: My Favorite Tools
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MacOS tools to make your life easier
Try bat (it’s like cat but better) https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
- Bat: A cat clone for syntax highlighting in the terminal
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🐚🦀Comandos shell reescritos em Rust
bat
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Tell HN: Please don't print –help to stderr in your CLI tools
For this reason I have a zsh function in my .zshrc with bat (which pages by default, if it's longer than your console height):
https://github.com/sharkdp/bat#highlighting---help-messages
# in your .bashrc/.zshrc/*rc
- Bat: A Cat Clone with Wings
What are some alternatives?
gping - Ping, but with a graph
vim-colors-solarized - precision colorscheme for the vim text editor
CompactGUI - Transparently compress active games and programs using Windows 10/11 APIs [Moved to: https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI]
exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.
regex - An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.
awesome-zsh-plugins - A collection of ZSH frameworks, plugins, themes and tutorials.
ht - Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests
iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty
nushell - A new type of shell
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
awesome-rewrite-it-in-rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust]
glow - Render markdown on the CLI, with pizzazz! 💅🏻