Thread by @rust4bio

Very Often, #bioinformatics works need side CLI tools for different tasks. @rustlang provides a bunch of new CLI tools delivering improvements other dated UNIX CLI. Here is a thread of those CLI tools. 🧵

Start with exa, a modern replacement for ls. It provides more beautiful, user-friendly, and colored output.
github.com/ogham/exa/raw/…

github.com/ogham/exa

ripgrep, for a fast and user-friendly search with built-in support for compressed files.

github.com/BurntSushi/rip…

fd, A simple, fast, and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
github.com/sharkdp/fd/

bat is a cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

github.com/sharkdp/bat

Hyperfine, a command-line benchmarking tool.
github.com/sharkdp/hyperf…

xsv, a fast CSV command line toolkit for indexing, slicing, analyzing, splitting, and joining CSV files.
github.com/BurntSushi/xsv

diskus, a minimal, fast alternative to 'du -sh'.

github.com/sharkdp/diskus

sd, intuitive find & replace CLI (sed alternative), with painless regular expressions and string-literal mode.
github.com/chmln/sd

git-cliff, a highly customizable Changelog Generator that follows Conventional Commit specifications.
github.com/orhun/git-cliff

tokei, count your code, quickly.

github.com/XAMPPRocky/tok…

Did we miss a tool written in #rustlang that you use for your bioinformatics stuff? let us know. 🙂🧬💻🦀