XGREP

Description

Xgrep is an implementation of the famous GREP in rust. GREP which means Globally search a Regular Expression and Print is used to search the contents of a file for a regular expression. This project was built as a step for mastering the RUST programming book. A bigger version has been built by a fellow Rustacean by the name Andrew Gallant in his project called RipGrep.

Usage

git clone git@github.com:xpanvictor/xgrep.git
cd xgrep
cargo run query filepath.txt

Where
query: a string to search for in
filepath: a path leading to file to search for

Options

1. To ignore the search case:

• Linux:
  IGNORE_CASE=1 cargo run query filepath
• Powershell:
  Env:IGNORE_CASE=1; cargo run query filepath.txt

2. To save search result to a file
   cargo run query search_filepath.txt > output_filepath.txt

Pending Updates

1. Make xgrep display line number with the line of search results, issue here.

Contribution guidelines

1. Welcome to xgrep. The project is just a learning tool but anyone is free to contribute.
2. You can contribute via:

• Submitting issues on github issues.
• Code contribution by submitting a pull request.
• Documentation

3. Rust joy is needed :).