Common *nix commands written in Rust

From the ls replacement: &quot;Why spend your time squinting at black and white text?&quot;<p>Uh, because squinting at blue-on-black text is much more difficult. Human eyes focus best at yellow-green, they see that as brightest, and they don&#x27;t even have long-wavelength (blue) receptors in the fovea.<p>I also looked at the alternatives to ps, top, cat, find, and du.<p>My overall feeling is that these are really not like UNIX tools at all. They are not very scriptable. Output is full of Unicode, color, column dividers, headers, underlining, and pagination. Values are in so-called &quot;human readable&quot; form, like &quot;1.4M&quot; instead of 1474560 or whatever it may be, which is a real pain for scripting.<p>I also notice some features that seem out of place to me, a long-time UNIX user. The tools waste space on displaying things related to git, docker, and network connections. I would expect the proper tools to be more like &quot;git ls&quot;, &quot;docker ls&quot;, &quot;docker ps&quot;, and &quot;netstat -p&quot;. (for those ones that don&#x27;t actually exist, take that as a suggestion for a coding project) Not all the world is devops on a web site.

There are sometimes good reasons, usually related to features although sometimes related to performance, to prefer newer utilities like ripgrep over older ones like grep. Implementation language is not one of them.

This isn’t too compelling a story on its own, I’m assuming this is someone who wrote a collection for themselves and made it public on their blog.<p>Glad they wrote their collection, but not something I’m excited about.<p>In general I’d love to hear “this was better in Rust because of X, Y and Z and the tradeoffs I had to make were A, B and C”.<p>But again, this isn’t on the author to do, I’m pretty sure I can find other articles on the internet that talk to that.<p>Edit: most of the READMEs of the projects look pretty good about that on a quick skim.

What I would like to see is something like Hadoop, Kafka, Spark rewritten in Rust. Something that will fundamentally change the landscape. Rewriting these Unix cli is only good learning experience

nushell is a better idea though - structured output, no text scraping.<p>And it&#x27;s Rust! <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nushell.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nushell.sh&#x2F;</a>

It&#x27;s a nice collection of common CLI utilities that make one&#x27;s life a bit more comfortable.<p>The poster is not the author, but the collector.