cicada VS grab

Compare cicada vs grab and see what are their differences.

cicada

An old-school bash-like Unix shell written in Rust (by mitnk)

grab

An attempt at making a simple clone of grep(1) using Rust. (by selectiveduplicate)
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cicada grab
2 2
967 4
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4.0 3.3
7 months ago 7 months ago
Rust Rust
MIT License MIT License
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cicada

Posts with mentions or reviews of cicada. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-10.
  • What is a good alternative to Zsh?
    4 projects | /r/suckless | 10 Jul 2022
    As for POSIX compliance, this is from their FAQ:
    4 projects | /r/suckless | 10 Jul 2022
    Idk if this could be considered suckless, or if its what you're looking for, but heres one I recently saw in made in rust called cicada

grab

Posts with mentions or reviews of grab. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-25.
  • My first project: A basic grep clone
    2 projects | /r/rust | 25 Oct 2021
    As part of my journey of learning Rust, I've made a very basic clone of grep. It has most of the primary functions of grep, I think. Along the way I've learned a lot. It could certainly use some performance optimizations; if you look at the code you'll know what I mean! But I'm proud of it; never thought I could do systems programming or shape up a tool like this from scratch.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cicada and grab you can also consider the following projects:

oksh - Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell (pdksh).

ATS-Postiats - ATS2: Unleashing the Potentials of Types and Templates

ksh - ksh 93u+m: KornShell lives! | Latest release: https://github.com/ksh93/ksh/releases

teip - Masking tape to help commands "do one thing well"

move-links - CLI utility to move (or rename) your files to a new location and redirect all of its symbolic links, to the new path

handlr - A better xdg-utils

cloneit - A cli tool to download specific GitHub directories or files

Agda - Agda is a dependently typed programming language / interactive theorem prover.

fcp - A significantly faster alternative to the classic Unix cp(1) command, copying large files and directories in a fraction of the time.

scriptisto - A language-agnostic "shebang interpreter" that enables you to write scripts in compiled languages.

systems-with-rust - cr4sh_ (pronounced crash, because it crashes all the time) is a Linux shell fully written with Rust. This can be used for educational purposes and is a great intro to Systems Programming [Moved to: https://github.com/bexxmodd/cr4sh_]

tshell - A shell for windows made in rust