Top 23 Rust CLI Projects

• bat

  48 29,772 9.6 Rust

  A cat(1) clone with wings.

  Project mention: Colored json terminal output like in Nodejs | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-10-12

  Bat can also be used as a library for easy pretty printing: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/master/examples/yaml.rs

• ripgrep

  115 27,488 8.5 Rust

  ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

  Project mention: Regular expressions at runtime? | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-10-13

  Just to note, the official regex crate is used in ripgrep which is also used for VSCode's search functionality.

• Scout APM

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• fd

  38 19,172 8.5 Rust

  A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

  Project mention: Finding files | reddit.com/r/linuxquestions | 2021-10-12

• spotify-tui

  25 10,525 8.3 Rust

  Spotify for the terminal written in Rust 🚀

  Project mention: Whats your favourite open source Rust project that needs more recognition? | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-10-11

  spotify-tui spotify terminal UI

• hyperfine

  19 8,761 8.4 Rust

  A command-line benchmarking tool

  Project mention: I did a little write up comparing the execution speeds for Bash vs. Dash | reddit.com/r/commandline | 2021-10-06

  Try hyperfine for better benchmarks.

• xsv

  19 7,659 1.0 Rust

  A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

  Project mention: TV is a cross-platform CSV pretty printer made to maximize viewer enjoyment | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-09-27

  XSV [0] can also pretty-print (minus the colors), but that's just the tip of the iceberg as far as what it can do. It's very handle for quick statistical analysis of CSV input.

  [0]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

• bandwhich

  0 6,605 0.7 Rust

  Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

• Nanos

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• tokei

  5 5,479 7.8 Rust

  Count your code, quickly.

  Project mention: My favorite cli/tui programs: | reddit.com/r/commandline | 2021-07-15

• ffsend

  9 5,394 6.9 Rust

  :mailbox_with_mail: Easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client.

  Project mention: Blog Post: Large Rust Workspaces | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-08-22

  Speaking of Send and Rust. You might find ffsend interesting, which is a Send client written in Rust.

• genact

  3 4,982 8.6 Rust

  🌀 A nonsense activity generator

  Project mention: I made a tool you guys can use for producing advanced Linux memes | reddit.com/r/linuxmemes | 2021-04-20

• grex

  16 4,589 6.7 Rust

  A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases

  Project mention: Release of grex 1.3.0 - Generate regular expressions from user-provided test cases | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-09-15

• wasm-pack

  12 3,695 8.0 Rust

  📦✨ your favorite rust -> wasm workflow tool!

  

  Project mention: Default ThreeJS example gets messed up by "trunk serve index.html" | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-10-03

  If you really want a WASM library instead of a WASM application, it's probably more straight forward to just use wasm-pack.

• pastel

  2 3,676 7.1 Rust

  A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

  Project mention: fd is looking for contributors | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-08-08

  fd is my very first Rust project. In fact, if you go back in (Git) history, the project was originally written in C++. I have created various other Rust command-line tools since then, but I love coming back to fd, as I personally use it the most.

• onefetch

  3 3,451 9.3 Rust

  Git repository summary on your terminal

  Project mention: Godot copypasta | reddit.com/r/godot | 2021-04-14

  You should add this to onefetch it does not currently work with Godot/gdscript.

• websocat

  3 3,300 6.0 Rust

  Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions

  Project mention: Testing the Async Cloud with AWS CDK | dev.to | 2021-09-13

  There's really nothing to this. I just have to provide the bus name and an optional pattern. Now using websocat, I get output like this:

• fselect

  11 3,038 8.3 Rust

  Find files with SQL-like queries

  Project mention: Awesome Rewrite It In Rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-05-27

  I really like fselect, which I use more than fd

• bottom

  24 2,866 9.3 Rust

  Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.

  Project mention: top | reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace | 2021-10-14

  btm

• miniserve

  17 2,702 9.5 Rust

  🌟 For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!

  Project mention: Miniserve: Cross-platform tool to serve files via HTTP | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-08-04

• gitoxide

  19 2,526 10.0 Rust

  An idiomatic, lean, fast & safe pure Rust implementation of Git

  Project mention: cargo smart-release 0.4, now with non-destructive changelog editing | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-10-15

• wrangler

  42 2,498 9.1 Rust

  🤠 wrangle your Cloudflare Workers

  

  Project mention: The Developer Advocate ToolKit: Software Tools You Need To Move Fast | dev.to | 2021-10-14

  Cloudflare Workers: It is excellent for building serverless applications on top of Cloudflare's global network. With Cloudflare workers, my app is served to reduce the latency immensely for users wherever they are. Check out projects built with workers!

• procs

  1 2,285 8.5 Rust

  A modern replacement for ps written in Rust

  Project mention: Replace your Existing Unix Utilities with These Modern Alternatives | dev.to | 2021-07-30

  procs

• cargo-edit

  10 1,978 7.6 Rust

  A utility for managing cargo dependencies from the command line.

  Project mention: Rust for Data Science: Tutorial 1 | dev.to | 2021-08-24

  I am using currently cargo add from the good cargo-edit (quick inst: cargo install cargo-edit) to handle dependencies, and VisualStudio Code as dev IDE.

• texture-synthesis

  2 1,470 3.8 Rust

  🎨 Example-based texture synthesis written in Rust 🦀

  

  Project mention: WaveFunctionCollapse: Generates bitmaps that are locally similar to the input | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-07-15

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