superwhich

superwhich is a cross-platform CLI tool that was initially meant to be a faster drop-in replacement for Windows' where command but since it uses Jaro-Winkler distance to calculate the similarity between the strings it can be called a sort of "smart" which, it can handle some typos and highlights the section of the executables that matches the search pattern.

Installation

From crates.io: cargo install superwhich
From GitHub: cargo install --git https://github.com/DarkCeptor44/superwhich
Manually (after cloning the repo locally): cargo install --path .
From releases.

Usage

usage

$ swhich -h

Cross-platform smart which alternative


Usage: swhich [OPTIONS] <PATTERN>

Arguments:

  <PATTERN>  The search pattern


Options:

  -c, --color <COLOR>  Color of the highlighted text (off for no color) [default: blue]

  -t, --print-time     Print time elapsed

  -h, --help           Print help

  -V, --version        Print version

Todo

Make it faster (currently at ~500ms).
Find a better way to match the pattern to the name when printing the result.

Benchmarks

The benchmarks were run using Hyperfine.

Machine A

AMD64, 32GB RAM, Ryzen 7 3800X, Windows 10.

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
`swhich pnpm`	471.8 ± 3.2	468.4	477.9	4.50 ± 0.12
`where pnpm`	104.9 ± 2.6	103.3	116.8	1.00

Machine B

ARM64, 1GB RAM, Orange Pi Zero2, Debian 12.

coming soon

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.

superwhich 1.0.0