Top 23 Rust Command-line Projects

• bat

  11 24,764 9.6 Rust

  A cat(1) clone with wings.

  Latest mention: list/cat Perl code in a terminal, with syntax highlighting | reddit.com/r/perl | 2021-01-21

  bat would be well worth a look: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat

• ripgrep

  10 23,519 7.6 Rust

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

  Latest mention: CVE-2021-3156: Heap-Based Buffer Overflow in Sudo | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-26

  Try https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep – it’s across the board better, and one of the best personal productivity boosts you can make if you use grep frequently.

• fd

  6 16,108 7.9 Rust

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

  Latest mention: Prepare a set of Rust tools that can be used with zsh in zinit | dev.to | 2021-01-18

  fd Fast find alternative tool

• exa

  3 12,009 7.5 Rust

  A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

  Latest mention: Prepare a set of Rust tools that can be used with zsh in zinit | dev.to | 2021-01-18

  exa Fast ls alternative tool

• xsv

  0 6,789 0.0 Rust

  A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.

• hyperfine

  2 6,785 7.3 Rust

  A command-line benchmarking tool

  Latest mention: Gdu - fast disk usage analyzer | reddit.com/r/archlinux | 2021-01-01

• clap-rs

  4 5,379 9.2 Rust

  A full featured, fast Command Line Argument Parser for Rust

  Latest mention: Show HN: Rust-starter, a boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-25

  > You do not "need a framework" to build simple CLI tools in Rust. Most people use a command line argument parser, the most popular being clap [0]

  0: https://github.com/clap-rs/clap

• tui-rs

  1 4,325 7.7 Rust

  Build terminal user interfaces and dashboards using Rust

  Latest mention: rust-starter: boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-01-25

  To do that, you'd add a curses binding to it, like one of the libraries listed on the Backends wiki page for Cursive or in the README for tui-rs.

• onefetch

  3 2,805 9.6 Rust

  Git repository summary on your terminal

  Latest mention: [WezTerm] Onefetch ベティ・ブープ | reddit.com/r/unixporn | 2021-01-25

  Tool: https://github.com/o2sh/onefetch

• dog

  1 2,679 8.4 Rust

  Command-line DNS client

  Latest mention: Rusticles #20 - Wed Nov 18 2020 | dev.to | 2020-11-17

  ogham/dog (Rust): Command-line DNS client

• websocat

  1 2,477 3.3 Rust

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

  Latest mention: Exploring the methods of looking into Ethereum’s transaction pool | dev.to | 2020-12-23

  Subscriptions is real-time streaming of data from server to client through WebSocket. You will need a constantly active connection to stream such events. You cannot use curl for this and have to use a WebSocket client like websocat if you want to access it via command line. Once executed, a stream of pending transaction IDs will start flowing in.

• zoxide

  4 1,955 7.7 Rust

  A faster way to navigate your filesystem

  Latest mention: Looking for a cd (change directory) productivity tool that I've forgotten its name | reddit.com/r/linuxquestions | 2021-01-18

  zoxide

• indicatif

  0 1,709 3.2 Rust

  A command line progress reporting library for Rust

• miniserve

  4 1,433 8.7 Rust

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

  Latest mention: Miniserve – a CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-22

• pueue

  7 1,166 9.2 Rust

  :stars: Manage your shell commands.

  Latest mention: Pueue – a beautiful Unix job queue system | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-01-26

• crossterm

  0 953 7.5 Rust

  Cross platform terminal library rust

• rustyline

  0 635 7.7 Rust

  Readline Implementation in Rust

• quicli

  0 466 0.0 Rust

  Quickly build cool CLI apps in Rust.

• pb

  0 386 2.2 Rust

  Console progress bar for Rust

• kondo

  2 352 6.1 Rust

  Save disk space by cleaning non-essential files from software projects.

  Latest mention: Build Times And Target Directory Size | reddit.com/r/rust | 2020-08-27

• rust-ansi-term

  0 318 0.0 Rust

  Rust library for ANSI terminal colours and styles (bold, underline)

• pancurses

  0 277 0.0 Rust

  A Rust curses library, supports Unix platforms and Windows

• sad

  1 264 0.0 Rust

  CLI search and replace | Space Age seD

  Latest mention: I just put a huge amount of time into CHADTree (NERDTree competitor) | reddit.com/r/neovim | 2021-01-21

  Thanks, if you like it you can also try my batch text editor.

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