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Top 23 Rust Command Line Tool Projects
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ripgrep
ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
ripgrep fast grep replacement
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- Project mention: Rust Coreutils 0.5.0 Release: 87.75% compatibility with GNU Coreutils | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-14
- Project mention: Opencode: AI coding agent, built for the terminal | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-06
Side note, if you're a lazygit fan, consider using gitui as an alternative. Feature wise they're pretty similar but gitui is much faster and I find it easier to use.
https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui
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InfluxDB
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websocat
Command-line client for WebSockets, like netcat (or curl) for ws:// with advanced socat-like functions
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grex
A command-line tool and Rust library with Python bindings for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases
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[1]: https://github.com/svenstaro/miniserve
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code2prompt
A CLI tool to convert your codebase into a single LLM prompt with source tree, prompt templating, and token counting.
Project mention: Revolutionizing LLM Interactions: Code2Prompt – Your Code's New AI Assistant | dev.to | 2025-06-29View the Project on GitHub
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Another interesting tool in this space is trippy, which ‘combines the functionality of traceroute and ping’
https://github.com/fujiapple852/trippy
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I use television (https://github.com/alexpasmantier/television) with shell integration
so basically I end up doing ctrl-r, then fuzzy find the command and run it
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termscp
🖥 A feature rich terminal UI file transfer and explorer with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3/SMB
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erdtree
A modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules.
Project mention: Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-17Neat, looks like a combination of erdtree[0] and broot[1]. I use both on a daily basis, are there any features that stand out from these two?
[0]: https://github.com/solidiquis/erdtree
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tidy-viewer
📺(tv) Tidy Viewer is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment.
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hl
A fast and powerful log viewer and processor that converts JSON logs or logfmt logs into a clear human-readable format.
hl high-performance log viewer
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fastmod
A fast partial replacement for the codemod tool. Assists with large-scale codebase refactors via regex-based find and replace with human oversight and occasional intervention.
I use fastmod[1] and enjoy it
[1]: https://github.com/facebookincubator/fastmod
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httm
Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups!)
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> Unfortunately they represent a huge usability hit over API Keys for the average joe. Involving cryptography to sign a JWT per request makes an API significantly harder to consume with tools like Postman or CURL.
Just generate the JWT using, e.g. https://github.com/mike-engel/jwt-cli ? It’s different, and a little harder the first time, but not any kind of ongoing burden.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Command Line Tool projects in Rust? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | ripgrep | 58,189 |
| 2 | zoxide | 31,903 |
| 3 | coreutils | 22,382 |
| 4 | gitui | 21,059 |
| 5 | tokei | 13,603 |
| 6 | broot | 12,205 |
| 7 | ast-grep | 11,708 |
| 8 | websocat | 8,217 |
| 9 | grex | 7,944 |
| 10 | miniserve | 7,267 |
| 11 | code2prompt | 6,868 |
| 12 | trippy | 6,375 |
| 13 | pueue | 5,943 |
| 14 | television | 3,889 |
| 15 | termscp | 2,678 |
| 16 | erdtree | 2,541 |
| 17 | rq | 2,296 |
| 18 | tidy-viewer | 2,125 |
| 19 | hl | 1,943 |
| 20 | fastmod | 1,857 |
| 21 | httm | 1,581 |
| 22 | jwt-cli | 1,434 |
| 23 | sshs | 1,407 |
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