🤔 What is this?

Imagine this: You come across some mysterious text 🧙‍♂️ 0x52908400098527886E0F7030069857D2E4169EE7 or dQw4w9WgXcQ and you wonder what it is. What do you do?

Well, with what-rs all you have to do is ask what-rs "0x52908400098527886E0F7030069857D2E4169EE7" and what-rs will tell you!

what-rs's job is to identify what something is. Whether it be a file or text! Or even the hex of a file! What about text within files? We have that too! what-rs is recursive, it will identify everything in text and more!

⚠️ The project is under active development and not yet feature complete with pyWhat ⚠️

⚙ Usage

🌌 Other Features

Anytime you have a file, and you want to find structured data in it that's useful, what-rs is for you.

Or if you come across some piece of text, and you don't know what it is, what-rs will tell you.

📁 File & Directory Handling

File Opening You can pass in a file path by what-rs 'this/is/a/file/path'. what-rs is smart enough to figure out it's a file!

What about a whole directory? what-rs can handle that too! It will recursively search for files and output everything you need!

🔍 Filtering your output

Sometimes, you only care about seeing things which are related to AWS. Or bug bounties, or cryptocurrencies!

You can filter output by using what-rs --rarity 0.2:0.8 "thing/to/identify"". Use what-rs --help to get more information.

👽 Sorting, Exporting, and more!

Sorting You can sort the output by using what-rs -k rarity --reverse INPUT. Use what-rs --help to get more information.

Exporting You can export to json using what-rs --format json and results can be sent directly to a file using what-rs --format json > outport.json.

Borderless mode what-rs has a special mode to match identifiable information within strings. By default, it is enabled in CLI but can be disabled using what-rs --disable-borderless INPUT or what-rs -d INPUT.

Use what --help for more information.

💖 Acknowledgement

Big thanks to bee-san and everyone who worked on pyWhat for their amazing work on! Without them this project wouldn't exist.