A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

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, exa, fd, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, zoxide and cargo-wipe.

atuin: "Magical shell history"
bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool
bat: A replacement for cat that provides syntax highlighting and other features.
bottom: Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
broot: A new way to see and navigate directory trees
counts: "A tool for ad hoc profiling"
choose: A human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk
delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
difftastic: A syntax-aware diff
dog: A command-line DNS client
dua: "View disk space usage and delete unwanted data, fast."
dust: "a more intuitive version of du in Rust"
eva: "a calculator REPL, similar to bc(1)" (be sure to check out fend as well)
exa: "A modern version of ls"
fclones: an "efficient duplicate file finder"
fd: "A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find"
felix: tui file manager with vim-like key mapping
fend: "Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator" (Documentation)
frum: A modern Ruby version manager written in Rust
fselect: "Find files with SQL-like queries"
gptman: "A GPT manager that allows you to copy partitions from one disk to another and more"
grex: A command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases
htmlq: Like jq, but for HTML. Uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files.
hyperfine: Command-line benchmarking tool
inlyne: "GPU powered yet browsless tool to help you quickly view markdown files"
jless: "command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data."
jql: A JSON query language CLI tool
just: Just a command runner (seems like an alternative to make)
legdur: A "simple CLI program to compute hashes of large sets of files in large directory structures and compare them with a previous snapshot."
lemmeknow: Identify mysterious text or analyze hard-coded strings from captured network packets, malwares, and more.
lfs: A Linux utility to get information on filesystems; like df but better
lsd: The next generation ls command (though personally I prefer exa)
macchina: Fast, minimal and customizable system information frontend.
mdBook: Create books from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
mdcat: Fancy cat for Markdown
miniserve is "a CLI tool to serve files and dirs over HTTP". I use this as a replacement for python -m SimpleHTTPServer, or whatever the latest version of that command is.
monolith: Save complete web pages as a single HTML file
ouch: "Painless compression and decompression for your terminal"
pastel: A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors.
printfn: "Arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator"
procs: A modern replacement for ps written in Rust
qsv: CSVs sliced, diced & analyzed. (A fork of xsv)
rip: A safe and ergonomic alternative to rm
ripgrep: A faster replacement for GNU’s grep command. This tool is very good.
ripsecrets: Find secret keys in your code before commiting them to git. I've contributed to this one!
sd: Intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative).
tealdear: A very fast implementation of tldr in Rust.
teehee: "A modal terminal hex editor"
tin-summer: Find build artifacts that are taking up disk space
tokei: Count your (lines of) code, quickly
topgrade: Upgrade all of your tools
watchexec: Execute commands in response to file modifications. (Note: See cargo watch if you want to watch a Rust project.)
xcp: An extended cp
xh: "Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests"
xsv: A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust. (Last updated in 2018)
zoxide: A smarter cd command.

Tools to help working with Rust lang itself

cargo-audit: Audit Cargo.lock files for crates with security vulnerabilities reported to the RustSec Advisory Database.
cargo-geiger: Detects usage of unsafe Rust in a Rust crate and its dependencies.
cargo-wipe: Cargo subcommand that recursively finds and optionally wipes all "target" or "node_modules" folders that are found in the current path.
cargo-crev: A cryptographically verifiable code review system for the cargo (Rust) package manager.
bacon: A background Rust code checker
cargo watch: Watches over your Cargo project's source.
cargo-binstall: "Binary installation for [R]ust projects"

Terminal emulators / terminal-related

Alacritty: A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
Wezterm: A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
Starship: Customizable prompt for any shell.
Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included.

Text editors written in Rust

amp
helix
kibi: "A text editor in ≤1024 lines of code, written in Rust"
lapce
pepper
xi
zee

See this "Battle of the [Rust] text editors" post from 2022.

Email clients

himalaya: "Command-line interface for email management"

Other lists of Rust command line utilities

Tips

`exa` aliases I use in my `~/.bashrc`

if hash exa 2>/dev/null; then
    alias ls='exa'
    alias l='exa -l --all --group-directories-first --git'
    alias ll='exa -l --all --all --group-directories-first --git'
    alias lt='exa -T --git-ignore --level=2 --group-directories-first'
    alias llt='exa -lT --git-ignore --level=2 --group-directories-first'
    alias lT='exa -T --git-ignore --level=4 --group-directories-first'
else
    alias l='ls -lah'
    alias ll='ls -alF'
    alias la='ls -A'
fi

Shameless plug: Tools that I've written in Rust

Tidy: A command-line tool for combining and cleaning large word list files.

Know a good one that I don't have listed here?

Let me know in the comments, a PR, on Mastodon or Twitter.

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