rsgrep

A tine grep-like tool written in Rust for learning purposes.

It searching for a fixed substring in input and prints matching lines to stdout. Input can come from file or from stdin (pipes / redirects).

Features

• Fixed substring search (line.contains(pattern))
• Read from :
  • stdin via pipe/redirect
  • a single file path
• Prints matching lines to stdout

Build

cargo build --release

Binary would be at:

./target/release/rsgrep

Usage

1) Search in a file

./target/release/rsgrep <file> <pattern>

2) Search in stdin (pipe / redirect)

cat file.txt | ./target/release/rsgrep <pattern>

Or redirect:

./target/release/rsgrep error < file.txt