Discover gists

A curated list of command-line utilities written in Rust

Note: I have moved this list to a proper repository. I'll leave this gist up, but it won't be updated. To submit an idea, open a PR on the repo.

Note that I have not tried all of these personally, and cannot and do not vouch for all of the tools listed here. In most cases, the descriptions here are copied directly from their code repos. Some may have been abandoned. Investigate before installing/using.

The ones I use regularly include: bat, dust, fd, fend, hyperfine, miniserve, ripgrep, just, cargo-audit and cargo-wipe.

atuin: "Magical shell history"
bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System is also known as NSIS open-source system to create Windows application installers. NSIS is a script-based system allowing you to create the logic behind your installer/setup file in a complex way to install tasks. NSIS offers plug-ins and other scripts, for example, to download/install 3rd-party files or communicate with Windows.

The tutorial application

This tutorial will guide you through installing and creating your first Windows installer with Nullsoft Scriptable Install System and how to compile your project. Captura Portable will be used as "our application" for the sake of this tutorial.

Installation

Head to NSIS official site and download the latest release and install it. Run NSIS and you will be welcomed with a menu like below, It's always a good practice to read the Documentation before jumping in t

IMPORTANT

See the following links for further updates to Github Desktop for Ubuntu. These are official instructions. (also mentioned by fetwar on Nov 3, 2023)

For the sake of "maintaining the tradition" here is the updated version.

ThinkPad T480 fingerprint reader on Fedora Linux

Background

The Synaptics fingerprint sensor (06cb:009a) present on my T480 is not supported by libfprint and fprintd as it requires a non-free binary blob. uunicorn created open-fprintd, a replacement for fprintd, that allows for loading of binary blobs. In conjunction with their python-validity driver we are able to make use of the inbuilt fingerprint reader. The following instructions were tested against Fedora Linux 35.

Installing `open-fprintd` and `python-validity`

sudo dnf copr enable tigro/python-validity
sudo dnf install open-fprintd fprintd-clients fprintd-clients-pam python3-validity

	impl<V: Value> core::str::FromStr for NonNormalizingDec<V> {
	type Err = &'static str;

	#[inline(never)]
	#[rustfmt::skip]
	fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self, Self::Err> {
	/// Converts an ASCII decimal digit to an int.
	///
	/// In release builds, no range checks are performed and passing a
	/// non-digit character will result is undefined (yet safe) behavior.

	/// A type-erased task that you can store in a collection
	/// to allow you to cancel at a later date.
	///
	/// Upon deinit of the task, the task will be cancelled
	/// automatically. Similar to Combine's AnyCancellable.
	final class AnyTask {

	/// Call this cancellation block to cancel the task manually.
	let cancel: () -> Void
	/// Checks whether the task is cancelled.

	import logging
	import jwt
	from urllib.parse import urlparse
	import urllib.request

	from collections import OrderedDict
	from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, cast

	import voluptuous as vol

	{% if certificate and certificate_id > 0 -%}
	{% if ssl_forced == 1 or ssl_forced == true %}
	{% if hsts_enabled == 1 or hsts_enabled == true %}
	# HSTS (ngx_http_headers_module is required) (63072000 seconds = 2 years)
	add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000;{% if hsts_subdomains == 1 or hsts_subdomains == true -%} includeSubDomains;{% endif %} preload" always;
	add_header Referrer-Policy strict-origin-when-cross-origin;
	add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
	add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
	add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
	add_header Content-Security-Policy upgrade-insecure-requests;

	import logging
	logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

	def func1():
	logger.warning("This is a warning message")
	logger.info("This is a info message")

	#!/usr/local/bin/php
	<?php

	require_once("config.inc");
	require_once("interfaces.inc");
	require_once("util.inc");

	$subsystem = !empty($argv[1]) ? $argv[1] : '';
	$type = !empty($argv[2]) ? $argv[2] : '';