Command Line

Techniques to help create command line interfaces, such as argument parsers, line editing, or output coloring and formatting

TopicRelevant Rust Crates
Argument Parsingclap⮳, structopt⮳, argh⮳
Interactive Promptsdialoguer⮳, console⮳
Progress Barsindicatif⮳, pbr⮳
Table Formattingprettytable⮳, term-table⮳
Color Outputansi_term⮳, owo-colors⮳
File System OperationsUse std::fs, pathdiff⮳.
Process Managementstd::process
Text Manipulationregex⮳, grep-cli⮳, bat⮳ (for cat like functionality)
Configurationconfig⮳, serde⮳ (for serialization)
Logginglog⮳, env_logger⮳

Argument Parsing

RecipeCratesCategories
Using clap's Builder APIclapcat-command-line-interface
Using clap's Derive APIclapcat-command-line-interface
Parse Command-line Arguments with lexoptlexoptcat-command-line-interface
Parse Command-line Arguments with pico-argspico-argscat-command-line-interface
Parse Command-line Arguments with structoptstructoptcat-command-line-interface
clap_completeclap_completecat-command-line-interface

ANSI Terminal Handling

RecipeCratesCategories
ANSI Terminalansi_termcat-command-line-interface cat-command-line-utilities
Print Colored Text to the Terminalansi_termcat-command-line-interface
Print Bold Text to the Terminalansi_termcat-command-line-interface
Print Bold and Colored Text to the Terminalansi_termcat-command-line-interface
Manipulate the Cursor, Style the Output, Handle Input Eventscrosstermcat-command-line-interface
ansitermansitermcat-command-line-interface
anstreamanstreamcat-command-line-interface
anstyleanstylecat-command-line-interface
consoleconsolecat-command-line-interface
owo-colorsowo-colorscat-command-line-interface
stylishstylishcat-command-line-interface
termcolortermcolorcat-command-line-interface
yansiyansicat-command-line-interface
termiontermioncat-command-line-interface
nu-ansi-term[![nu-ansi-term][c-nu-ansi-term-badge]][c-nu-ansi-term]cat-command-line-interface
coloredcoloredcat-command-line-interface

Terminal User Interfaces (TUI)

RecipeCratesCategories
Build Complex TUIratatuicat-command-line-interface

User Interactions

RecipeCratesCategories
Ask for Confirmation, Selection, Text Inputinquirecat-command-line-interface cat-value-formatting
Display Progress Bars and Spinnersindicatifcat-command-line-interface
  • Command Line Utilities.
  • Internationalization.

References