Grep, now in Rust

A Rust implementation of GNU Grep. This project is an initial release and may contain bugs.

Install

cargo install uu_grep

🚀 Try it online

You can try grep directly in your browser on the uutils playground. Arguments (and a full command) can be passed through the URL via the cmd query parameter, for example:

printf '🚀 rocket\n🛰️ satellite\n🌙 moon\n⭐ star\n' | grep 🌙

Run it in the playground

Building

Download Rust at: https://rustup.rs/

# Check out this repository
git clone https://github.com/uutils/grep
cd grep

# Build a release version
cargo build --release

# Run!
./target/release/grep --help

# Run tests (if needed; after making changes)
cargo test

Pre-commit hooks

This project uses pre-commit; run pre-commit install to enable the git hooks.

Known Issues

• Does not take LANG, etc., into account for handling file encodings (non-UTF8 matches are treated as binary)
• No localization support yet
• Performances need to be improved

GNU test suite compatibility

Below is the evolution of how many GNU tests uutils passes.

Contributing

To contribute to uutils, please see CONTRIBUTING.

License

uutils is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

GNU Grep is licensed under the GPL 3.0 or later.