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ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
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regex
An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.
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CompactGUI
Discontinued Transparently compress active games and programs using Windows 10/11 APIs [Moved to: https://github.com/IridiumIO/CompactGUI] (by ImminentFate)
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tantivy
Discontinued Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy] (by quickwit-inc)
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awesome-rewrite-it-in-rust
Discontinued A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust]
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better cw alternative or higher similarity.
cw discussion
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-22.
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why GNU grep is fast
For things that are commonly and almost-ideally represented as text files, there’s a lot of Rust based alternatives are faster and have more features than the old unix/GNU tools: ripgrep, fd, cw, and you can find more in this list.
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A wc clone, written in Go
Nice, beats my old Rust wc through sheer brute force on my old 12c/24t server:
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How to learn Rust by own tiny applications?
A lot of unix-y tools have been rewritten in rust, where the usefulness comes from it being faster or having more features. Examples: bat, cw, lsd, ripgrep, diskonaut, gping. Maybe you could find an interesting program to rewrite?
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Awesome Rewrite It In Rust - A curated list of replacements for existing software written in Rust
cw, an optionally-multithreaded bytecount-accelerated wc clone
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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
Having written a Rust wc implementation a few years ago (https://github.com/Freaky/cw), I had a look at theirs.
It's pretty naive - a simple linewise read_until loop, a conditional to avoid word splitting and such if it's not needed, and for some reason it collects results into an array and prints when it's done rather than printing as it goes.
It doesn't support --files0-from like GNU wc, so isn't a drop-in replacement from that perspective. It also has the sadly common Rust trope of only supporting filenames that are valid UTF-8.
It doesn't seem overly slow considering its simplicity - usually trading blows with GNU and BSD wc. Perhaps the most glaring omission is the lack of a fast path for -c, which should reduce to a stat() call. Also unfortunate not to use the excellent bytecount crate to provide a very fast -l/m path.
The read_until loop also makes its memory use unpredictable compared with other wc's. If you run it on /dev/zero it will try to eat your computer.
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Freaky/cw is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of cw is Rust.
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