Rust System tools

Open-source Rust projects categorized as System tools

Top 18 Rust System tool Projects

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  1. fd

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

    Project mention: fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19
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  3. exa

    A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

    Project mention: Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-21

    I think they are not referring to ls, but to exa [0], which is not maintained anymore.

    [0]https://github.com/ogham/exa

  4. coreutils

    Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils

    Project mention: Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-21
  5. tokei

    Count your code, quickly.

    Project mention: Building My First Web App with the Help of AI | dev.to | 2025-03-23

    Whenever I find an interesting project on GitHub, I usually clone the repository and run tokei to check how many lines of code it has. It gives me a rough idea of the project's scale and complexity. (Subjective, of course!)

  6. Bandwhich

    Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

    Project mention: TUI for displaying current network utilization by PID, connection and remote IP | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-09
  7. watchexec

    Executes commands in response to file modifications

    Project mention: Watchexec: Execute commands in response to file modifications | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-06
  8. skim

    Fuzzy Finder in rust!

    Project mention: Better Shell History Search | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-25
  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  10. fselect

    Find files with SQL-like queries

  11. ion

    Ion is a modern system shell that features a simple, yet powerful, syntax. It is written entirely in Rust, which greatly increases the overall quality and security of the shell. It also offers a level of performance that exceeds that of Dash, when taking advantage of Ion's features. While it is developed alongside, and primarily for, RedoxOS, it is a fully capable on other *nix platforms. (by redox-os)

  12. cita

    A high performance blockchain kernel for enterprise users.

  13. netscanner

    Terminal Network scanner & diagnostic tool with modern TUI (by Chleba)

  14. snatch

    A simple, fast and interruptable download accelerator, written in Rust

  15. fontfinder

    GTK application for browsing and installing fonts from Google's font archive

  16. tv-renamer

    Mirror of https://gitlab.com/mmstick/tv-renamer

  17. rrun

    minimalistic command launcher in rust

  18. concurr

    Performs distributed command execution, written in Rust w/ Tokio

  19. logram

    Utility that takes logs from anywhere and sends them to Telegram.

  20. mjolnir

    chain database (by alfiankan)

  21. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Oxidizing Ubuntu: adopting Rust utilities by default

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2025
  • TUI for displaying current network utilization by PID, connection and remote IP

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Feb 2025
  • Tokei: Count your code, quickly – CLOC in Rust

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2025
  • Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jan 2025
  • Rust Coreutils 0.0.29 Release

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jan 2025
  • Watchexec: Execute commands in response to file modifications

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2024
  • Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jul 2024
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Index

What are some of the best open-source System tool projects in Rust? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 fd 37,552
2 exa 23,897
3 coreutils 19,926
4 tokei 12,197
5 Bandwhich 10,440
6 watchexec 5,897
7 skim 5,607
8 fselect 4,163
9 ion 1,506
10 cita 1,304
11 netscanner 1,124
12 snatch 677
13 fontfinder 276
14 tv-renamer 150
15 rrun 112
16 concurr 109
17 logram 99
18 mjolnir 2

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