Command line text processing with Rust tools

ℹ️ ℹ️ This is a work-in-progress book on text processing with command line Rust tools.

E-book

TODO: PDF/EPUB versions

For web version of the book, visit https://learnbyexample.github.io/cli_text_processing_rust/

Planned list of tools

• ripgrep
  • ripgrep-all
• sd
• frawk
• hck
  • choose
• fd
• rnr
• huniq
• bat — for options like -A, -n, etc
• jql
• xsv
• zet
• htmlq
• rq
• Et cetera

ℹ️ Rust coreutils won't be covered here. See also Awesome Alternatives in Rust.

Feedback and Contributing

Please open an issue if you spot any typo/errors.

Please do not submit pull requests.

I'd also highly appreciate your feedback about the book.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/learn_byexample

Acknowledgements

• /r/commandline/ and /r/rust/ — helpful forums
• stackoverflow and unix.stackexchange — for getting answers on pertinent questions related to command line
• Warning and Info icons by Amada44 under public domain
• Inkscape for favicon
• pngquant and svgcleaner for optimizing images
• softwareengineering.stackexchange and skolakoda for programming quotes
• mdBook — for web version of the book
  • mdBook-pagetoc — for adding table of contents for each page
  • minify-html — for minifying html files

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Code snippets are available under MIT License