clap-rs
A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust (by clap-rs)
coreutils
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils (by uutils)
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13,232 | 16,794 | |
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9.6 | 10.0 | |
1 day ago | 7 days ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
clap-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of clap-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.
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Build Your Own curl - Rust
We will be using the library for Clap - A simple-to-use, efficient, and full-featured library for parsing command line arguments and subcommands.
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CLI Contexts
I recently came across this question (and associated answer) on the clap repository. The answer given is a good one. But I wanted to expand with my own findings and practices, which spurred the motivation for this post.
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Getting Started with CLI tools in Rust using Clap
We can also use tuple-like struct syntax and named-field struct syntax for enum variants within our enum; this is because unlike in other OOP languages, Rust enums are actually sum types. You can read more about how powerful Rust enums are in another article we wrote here. You can have optional arguments by simply wrapping the types in Option, but if you want to add a flag to a command you can use bool, since clap recognises that flags are either there or not there. Let's have a look at what this might look like:
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Flow Updater JSON Creator
I began by developing a wrapper for the CurseForge API, which turned out to be a lengthy and challenging process but constituted the bulk of the work. Next, I coded the CLI, which was relatively straightforward. Instead of using the clap crate, a Rust tool for generating CLIs, I opted for the following line of code:
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netcrab: a networking tool
By this time I had already gotten tired of parsing arguments by myself and had looked for something to help with that. I found a really dang good argument parsing library called clap. What makes it so cool is it's largely declarative for common uses. You simply mark up a struct with attributes, and the parser automatically generates the usage and all the argument parsing code.
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Grimoire - A recipe management application.
How CLI arguments are handled (using clap).
- Rust 1.72.0
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I made an alternative --help renderer for clap based applications
Is this just referring to wrapping based on the terminal width? That is supported with the wrap_help feature though I have been considering making it a default feature.
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Looking for advice around project direction using artix-web
CLI, use Clap. If you want to get fancy, use Tui.
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Build a HTTP server with Rust and tokio - Part 1: serving static files
As our CLI is getting more complex, we'll use the clap crate to parse the command line arguments.
coreutils
Posts with mentions or reviews of coreutils.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-02.
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Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Not that it should represent the rubicon of when to/not to rewrite code, but when you do, you do trade one set of bugs for a new set of bugs: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues
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The First Stable Release of a Rust-Rewrite Sudo Implementation
Would be interesting to see a a Debian derivative that combines this with the Rust Implementation Of GNU Coreutils.[1] Could be a big win for memory safety and performance.
- New Version of the Rust Coreutils
- best software for linux
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Looking for a small boring rust project to help my learning.
uutils /coreutils is also a great project. It has many contributors, and it also is a great resource to learn.
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I Built an Implementation of the ls Command to Learn Rust! (Used to List Files in the Terminal)
You might be interested in this? https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
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I have years of experience in vulnerability analysis including several 0-day discovery, and this bug [buffer overflow] seems totally safe.
Already did it. Checkmate, as i believe your people say.
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[Media] My Rust OS for microcontrollers now has a dir command
There is already a rust implementation of coreutiils that uses a single binary like BusyBox or toybox. https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
- Tree(1) in Zig
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Rust is ugly, doesn’t even let you write simple data structures, unsafe rust is not even defined, makes the simplest things so hard to write and did I mention it’s ugly?
Ah yes, std, that famous crate that is unusable for systems programming. God forbid anyone do any "systems" programming that uses std.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing clap-rs and coreutils you can also consider the following projects:
structopt - Parse command line arguments by defining a struct.
exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.
argh - Rust derive-based argument parsing optimized for code size
tokei - Count your code, quickly.
docopt.rs - Docopt for Rust (command line argument parser).
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications
argparse-benchmarks-rs - Collected benchmarks for arg parsing crates written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/rosetta-rs/argparse-rosetta-rs]
woodpecker - Drill is an HTTP load testing application written in Rust
easy_flag - Simple command line flag parser for rust.
skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!
serde - Serialization framework for Rust
rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.