sts10

A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

Note: I have moved this list to a proper repository. I'll leave this gist up, but it won't be updated. To submit an idea, open a PR on the repo.

Note that I have not tried all of these personally, and cannot and do not vouch for all of the tools listed here. In most cases, the descriptions here are copied directly from their code repos. Some may have been abandoned. Investigate before installing/using.

The ones I use regularly include: bat, dust, fd, fend, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, cargo-audit and cargo-wipe.

• atuin: "Magical shell history"
• bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

rafaelpadovezi

Using fish shell with git bash on windows

To install fish shell on windows the options are:

• Cygwin
• WSL
• MSYS2

Since git bash is based on MSYS2 it seems a good fit to install fish. The problem is that git bash is a lightweight version of MSYS2 which does not include pacman as a package management, used to install fish.

This OS thread has great suggestions on how to solve this problem including using the full MSYS2. But the best solution for me was this answer by Michael Chen which installs pacman on git bash.

pervognsen

I was told by @mmozeiko that Address Sanitizer (ASAN) works on Windows now. I'd tried it a few years ago with no luck, so this was exciting news to hear.

It was a pretty smooth experience, but with a few gotchas I wanted to document.

First, download and run the LLVM installer for Windows: https://llvm.org/builds/

Then download and install the VS extension if you're a Visual Studio 2017 user like I am.

It's now very easy to use Clang to build your existing MSVC projects since there's a cl compatible frontend:

digitaljhelms

The scenario

Your repository has two commits:

$ git log --oneline
957fbfb No, I am your father.
9bb71ff A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....

marcelmaatkamp

import java.security.MessageDigest
import java.io.*

/**
 * Determine the MD5 or SHA1Sum of a file:
 * 
 *   println Checksum.getMD5Sum(new File("file.bin"))
 *   println Checksum.getSHA1Sum(new File("file.bin"))
 * 
 * @author: Marcel Maatkamp (m.maatkamp avec gmail dot com)