everything.rs

Do you ever feel like washing your hands after a coding session, disgusted at having to use essential Unix utilities with not the tiniest bit of Rust in them? If so, this project is for you! If not, this project is still for you, you just haven't seen the light yet. Head on over to rust-lang.org to meet your salvation.

Perhaps you've been using one of those "X Unix tool, but in Rust" things popping up everywhere. But that's not sustainable or convenient, because porting individual tools to Rust is slow, difficult work, and these individual ports often differ in behavior from the tool they were meant to replace. Most Unix tools don't have Rust ports, and many of these ports require maintenance. This repository aims to fix that.

Behold, a port of everything to Rust.

Want a drop-in Rust-powered replacement for ls or echo? everything.rs has got you covered. Now you can list directories, print strings, and more blazing fast 🚀, without the guilt of using a non-Rust tool! Rest assured, everything.rs will have the exact same behavior as ls or echo, but with Rust 🦀.

Installation

Download an executable from the latest release, or, if you want hemorrhaging-edge eveningly pre-pre-releases, download the artifact from the latest green run here.

Put it in a folder that's in your PATH, rename it to everything, and you're good to go!

everything.rs proudly uses ZeroVer instead of the extremely overrated SemVer. See the link for more information on how everything's versioning works.

Usage

To use a Rusty version of ls, use

everything ls
everything ls -al # You can pass arguments too

You can use aliases to make it more convenient. For example, alias ls=everything ls will let you use ls -al instead of typing out everything ls -al.

FAQ

How does it work?

everything.rs applies the cutting-edge technology pioneered by exec-rs to perfectly emulate any program. everything.rs does require you to have the program installed on your machine so it can better emulate it.

Does it work for more than Unix tools?

Of course! Want a Rust-powered replacement for that sluggish bash script you made? No problem, just stick an everything in front of it and use it the same way you normally would (everything <script path> <args...>).

There's no way you've ported everything. Does it actually work?

You better believe it.

What platforms does everything.rs support?

It should work on any OS from the Unix family, including, unfortunately, MacOS. It might work on Windows too, but I haven't included a release for it to teach Windows users a lesson. If you're using Windows, you could always build it yourself, but I'd recommend defenestrating yourself instead.

I love it! How can I support this project?

Despite how useful this software is, I don't want any compensation for it - working on this was fun enough!