hexyl VS walkdir

Compare hexyl vs walkdir and see what are their differences.

walkdir

Rust library for walking directories recursively. (by BurntSushi)
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hexyl walkdir
16 5
8,813 1,179
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7.4 4.3
about 2 months ago 14 days ago
Rust Rust
Apache License 2.0 The Unlicense
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hexyl

Posts with mentions or reviews of hexyl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

walkdir

Posts with mentions or reviews of walkdir. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-21.
  • Project idea: port markdownlint to Rust
    9 projects | /r/rust | 21 Apr 2023
    https://github.com/BurntSushi/walkdir for discovering markdown files
  • Blazingly fast file search library built in Rust 🔥
    6 projects | /r/rust | 29 Oct 2022
    The API looks really nice! What is your vision for the project? How is it going to compare to (walkdir)[https://github.com/BurntSushi/walkdir] performance and feature-wise?
  • Git ls-files is Faster Than Fd and Find
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2021
    > I believe that GNU find is slow because it is specifically written to allow arbitrary filesystem depth as opposed to "open file descriptor limit-limited depth".

    I haven't benchmarked find specifically, but I believe the most common Rust library for the purpose, walkdir[1], also allows arbitrary file system recursion depth, and is extremely fast. It was fairly close to some "naive" limited depth code I wrote in C for the same purpose.

    I'd be curious to see benchmarks of whether this actually makes a difference.

    [1] https://github.com/BurntSushi/walkdir

  • Your favorite Rust CLI utility? I have my top 10 below.
    24 projects | /r/rust | 5 Aug 2021
    It relies pretty heavily on the walkdir library from burntsushi so kudos to them!
  • Rust, musl and glibc in 2021
    1 project | /r/rust | 10 Jul 2021
    Although, I don't think FileType is the only problem. There's also Metadata, which I also had to re-roll: https://github.com/BurntSushi/walkdir/blob/1d7293a5a1ef548ce587a0b08abce5f21571a100/src/os/unix/stat.rs

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hexyl and walkdir you can also consider the following projects:

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

parallel-disk-usage - Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer

tools

zenith - Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage

tiempo

cligen - Nim library to infer/generate command-line-interfaces / option / argument parsing; Docs at

vivid - A themeable LS_COLORS generator with a rich filetype datebase

loggedfs - LoggedFS - Filesystem monitoring with Fuse

huxdemp - A better hexdump

exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

walk - Plan 9 style utilities to replace find(1)