Lib.rs

fd-lock

Advisory cross-platform lock on a file using a file descriptor to it

cap-std

Capability-based version of the Rust standard library

same-file

determining whether two file paths point to the same file

fd-find

fd is a simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find

pathrs

C-friendly API to make path resolution safer on Linux

magic

High level bindings for the libmagic C library

fselect

Find files with SQL-like queries

system-interface

Extensions to the Rust standard library

binstalk-downloader

The binstall toolkit for downloading and extracting file

alphanumeric-sort

can help you sort order for files and folders whose names contain numerals

atomic-file-install

For atomically installing a file or a symlink

fsevent

Rust bindings to the fsevent-sys macOS API for file changes notifications

build-fs-tree

Generate a filesystem tree from a macro or a YAML tree

unreferenced_files

finding unused and unreferenced files

google-file1_beta1

A complete library to interact with Cloud Filestore (protocol v1beta1)

cap-primitives

Capability-based primitives

touch-cli

Fast, Parallelized touch(1) file utility

aws-sdk-fsx

AWS SDK for Amazon FSx

google-file1

A complete library to interact with Cloud Filestore (protocol v1)

mtree2

iterating through the entries of an mtree record file

google-file1_beta1-cli

A complete library to interact with Cloud Filestore (protocol v1beta1)

faccess

file accessibility checks

google-file1-cli

A complete library to interact with Cloud Filestore (protocol v1)

pandora-interpreter

A command-line tool to run pandora language

mft

A Fast (and safe) parser for the Windows Master File Table (MFT) format

flirt

FiLe InteRacT, the file interaction tool for your command line

rcp-tools-rcmp

Fast file comparison tool - efficiently compares metadata across large filesets

rcp-tools-rlink

Fast hard-linking tool - efficiently creates hard links for large filesets (inspired by pcp/dsync)

rcp-tools-rrm

Fast file removal tool - efficiently removes large filesets (similar to rm -rf but much faster)

goldie

golden file testing

gitignore-in

A command line tool for managing .gitignore files with gitignore.in

magika

Determines file content types using AI

reamake

A CLI application built for quickly creating folder structures and preparing stems for mixing, mastering and production projects in Cockos Reaper

rmz

Fast rm provides an alternative to rm that focuses on maximizing performance

xvc-logging

Logging crate for Xvc

sreplace

efficient, and full-featured command line string replacer

syz

Interactive CLI to explore and visualize file and directory sizes

native-dialog

display dialogs. Supports GNU/Linux, BSD Unix, macOS and Windows.

download_mover

CLI: Moving File and Folder in Download Directory at Current Directory

fs-set-times

Set filesystem timestamps

close_already

Speeds up programs writing lots of files on Windows

downloader

way to download things via HTTP/HTTPS

lsv

Three‑pane terminal file viewer (TUI) with preview and Lua configuration

klavaro

Print your current xkb_layout in Sway

rdump

A fast, expressive, and language-aware file search tool

mft2bodyfile

parses an $MFT file to bodyfile (stdout)

wiza

Command line tool for file identification

siwi-download

Downloader with a pure http implementation support breakpoint continuations

orinfar

A Text Editor For Witches

Lion-cli

A developer tool to create files of different coding languages

fuga

A CLI tool to operate files or directories in 2 steps

moon_file_group

File groups and collections

kestrel-cli

Kestrel file encryption program

path-parents

Prints all the parents of each path given, optionally skipping parents up to the length specified by --skip

cat-cli

Concatenate and send files to standard output

datadriven

Rewritable table-driven testing

s3up

lil fella putting files into buckets

mmap-guard

Safe, guarded memory-mapped file I/O for Rust

notox

no toxic names anymore

cxt

Aggregates file/directory contents and sends them to the clipboard, a file, or stdout

cargo-derivefmt

Format derives alphabetically

fswatcher

A file system watcher that executes a command when a specified file changes

peek-cli

A fast CLI tool to open files and directories in your default browser

FreedomLogger

A professional, reusable logging library with pattern formatting, log rotation, and file management

macyeet

Drag and drop files into any macOS application from the command line

git2megaignore

Convert a .gitignore file to a .megaignore file

ruhs

Find largest files and directories

stash-cli

A local store for pipeline output and ad hoc file snapshots

rustyphoenixgenerator

generator from text files

spacefree

Ultra-fast file deletion CLI tool (supports trash)

renamex

A fast CLI tool to clean, normalize, and safely rename files in bulk

unpaired

Terminal utility for finding unique (non-duplicated) files

merge-code

A CLI tool for merging multiple code files into a signle file

mediafire_rs

Downloads files and folders from mediafire

pravaha

lets you read files from HTTP(S) URLs as if they were local files

find-up

Find the nearest ancestor directory that contains a file or directory

lua-bundle

a lua file concatter

downloader-rs

file downloader for rust

dedupefs

Presents files as deduplicated, content-addressed 1MB chunks with selectable hash algorithms

mvx

Enhanced file and directory move utility with progress bars and cross-device support

shannon-nu-glob

Fork of glob. Support for matching file paths against Unix shell style patterns.

ftag

CLI tool for tagging and searching files. See README.md for more info.

file-sorter

sorting files based on file name rules into directories

jfs-zgy

A journaling file system demonstrating crash consistency (Three Easy Pieces)

gh-download

Download a file or directory from a GitHub repository path

cowfile

A copy-on-write abstraction for binary data backed by memory or files

file_shred

binary to securily delete files, overwriting and moving them before removal

EnergyLogger4000-Reader

Reader for the Voltcraft Energy Logger 4000 device

trawldb

A CLI for managing trawl resources

httpdirectory

get a directory webpage (an HTTP index) into a Rust structure

kelpsget

A modern, lightweight wget clone written in Rust for fast and reliable file downloads from the command line

cargo-new-workspace

A tiny binary that creates a minimal Cargo.toml file that a workspace requires

mimium-symphonia

sound file sampler implementation using symphonia for mimium

fnorm

Rename bulk files with simple patterns

tudiff

A high-performance terminal directory comparison tool written in Rust - bringing Beyond Compare's intuitive interface to the command line

async-fetcher

Asynchronous multi-connection multi-download resumable HTTP file fetching state machine

dumpx

minimal command line tool to hexdump any file

hc-rs

create hosts file

normalizefs

Normalization of file system paths

scanseq

File sequence detector in Rust with Python interface for automation systems

chemfiles

Modern library for chemistry trajectories reading and writing

lore-web-collections-bin-lexer-2026-04-07-1-impl-2026-04-07-2

Lore Web Collections Bin

file-identify

File identification library for Rust - detects file types based on extensions, shebangs, and content

dlwrap

dlopen wrapper code generator

unshared

Terminal utility for finding unique (non-duplicated) files

grace-cli

CLI tool for processing files and strings

read_range

A portable and efficient crate for reading a specific range of bytes from a file. Provides both sync/async APIs and uses concurrent-safe positional I/O.

entui

A file entropy visualization in the terminal with a nice interface

rosetree

A fast command-line tool for scanning directories, analyzing file structures, and extracting file contents with gitignore support

pt-cli

Production-hardened clipboard-to-file tool with smart version management

filerefine

🧹 FileRefine is a Rust-based CLI tool that renames files in a directory to remove unwanted or problematic characters from filenames

tlg

Tools to process TLG image file

file-id

reading inode numbers (Linux, MacOS) and file IDs (Windows)

ttsync-fs

File system adapter for TT-Sync manifest scanning and atomic I/O

aleo-core

Data model for Leo documents (DAG=Directed - Acylic - Graph)

dirpulse

A CLI tool to analyze directory contents and report file statistics

dup-cli

upload multiple files to a server, support tracking progress

wrapr

wrap your code for ai

tomlq

obtaining information from a TOML file on the command line

newtree

A modern reimagining of the classic tree command with icons, color, and sane pattern filtering

pi_store

File storage

yini

extremely simple .ini file parser

pi_async_file

A async file tools library

pure-magic

Safe Rust re-implementation of libmagic

fragtk

Fragment file toolkit

justrs

'justfile_temple.just' file You can change the justfile I want. It's for Rust only.

whatuses

CLI tool to find which process is using a file or port

clawft-tools

Tool implementations for clawft (file, shell, memory)

aanew

ANEW append new lines to files

clangql

run SQL-like query on your C/C++ Abstract syntax tree

oysters

HTTP server for the Oysters LRU k/v store

png-glitch-cli

Cli to glitch PNG images

pretty_ini

Light library to read/write ini files

fs_rs

file system information tool written in Rust

japanese_law_xml_schema

法令標準XMLスキーマ対応ライブラリ

konjac

create a toml localization file

deno_config

Config file implementation for the Deno CLI

rename-gp

A CLI tool to rename files in bulk using glob patterns

cliperge

A CLI tool to combine the contents of multiple files and copy to the clipboard

nfile

terminal system monitor written in Rust

ebod

An Easy/Efficient Backup Solution for manual backup of syncing data in local storage devices

rcm-com

cap-async-std

Capability-based version of async-std

wholesum

Wholesome collection of file hashing algorithms all bundled in a single tool. Like sha256sum, b3sum and others, but one: the whole-sum.

firo

Straightforward rotating file implementation

rsid3

command line ID3v2 tag editor designed for scripting

uf

Minimalistic file opener

infolyt

Complete filesystem intelligence — index, analyse, organise

ring-file

A debugging tool with ring buffer like file struture, for high-performance code development

gramps_xml

work with Gramps XML files

run-ctags

Generate a ctags file for your Rust project with Universal Ctags

madvr_parse

madVR measurement file library

wd_log

A practical log crate for rust

jedit

Command-line tool to view and edit large JSON file

rolldown-file-id

reading inode numbers (Linux, MacOS) and file IDs (Windows)

jargon

Command line tool for displaying a random entry from the Jargon File

xrc_cli

A cli for multi-threaded encryption/decryption of files/folder using bitwise xor

resw

writing RESSA AST parts to a file

file-owner

Set and get Unix file owner and group

asmfmt

A formatter designed for programs in assembly language with AT&T syntax

stowr-cli

CLI tool for file management, including compressing, extracting, renaming, and organizing files

xvc-ecs

Entity-Component System for Xvc

metacat

categorical theorem prover

dnld

downloading

starbase_utils

General fs, io, serde, net, etc, utilities

cargo-const

compatibility helper

filesfinder

Find files within current directory that match given patterns, while respecting gitignore rules

softpath

A human-friendly file and directory path manipulation library for Rust

hayro-write

rewriting pages of a PDF file

nflz

CLI + Library to add leading zeros to ascending numbered file names. NFLZ stands for Numbered Files Leading Zeros.

filepath

Get the filesystem path of a file

shadow-crypt

Secure password-based file encryption with filename obfuscation

charon-logging

Structured logging using tracing and charon-error

code-it-later-rs

Filter crumbs you left in comments of code to remind where you were

reff

Rename all files in a directory to date + zero-padded index + original extension

bt_yaml_utils

Basic YAML reader operations. Transform form YAML to data

mktemp

files and directories

m4x_logger

vibe coded logging utility for Rust applications

symlink

Create symlinks in a cross-platform manner

fiox

file I/O using io_uring/iocp

dmg

attaching/detaching of macOS disk images

tremor-language-server

Tremor Language Server (Trill)

fff-grep

File grepping logic for fff

agentbin-server

Web server for the agentbin file sharing service

testfile

Temporary test file/dir management for unit tests

s3fcp

Fast file downloader with multi-part concurrent downloads from S3 and HTTP/HTTPS

edi-format

EDIFACT Formatter

headtail

head and tail simultaneously

convergio-file-transport

Rsync-based file transport between mesh nodes

horntail

maplestory resource file unpack lib

dlmgr

A multi-threaded file downloader

file_alloc

跨平台、高性能、兼容性好的文件大小分配库

bb-bmap-parser

bmap-parser is a library for Rust to parse bmap files

xcom

Windows file operations utility with shell integration for copy and move operations

bp3d-logger

A flexible Log implementation intended to be used with BP3D software

mucab

Convert Kanji to Katakana with POS. Needs a dictionary file.

fshar

File sharing via TCP

sparseutils

Small command-line utilities for working with sparse files

pathmut

Command line utility for manipulating path strings

witd

CLI tool to watch for file changes and run commands

codespec-rust-plugin

Rust test discovery plugin for CodeSpec

audio-preview

TUI for quickly navigating the file system and previewing audio files

zettelkasten-cli

A zettelkasten CLI that just works and gets out of your way

stacky-cli

Stacky CLI tools

neofile

linux file command for windows. PATCH 4.

semire_core

An extension to my former semire_read crate now with more functionality

pars

get list of functions in a python file

mc-unified-bookshelf

reading and writing different kinds of minecraft files

win32-version-info

Retrieve file version info (file description, file version, etc.) from Windows files

file-requirements

Composable file existence requirements with nested AND/OR logic and duplicate-term protection

filemagic

libmagic bindings

tauri-plugin-ios-bookmark

iOS security-scoped bookmark plugin for Tauri 2

fsquirrel

cross-platform get/set extended file attributes

openwith

A TUI application to manage file associations on macOS

metacat-cli

metacat: a categorical theorem prover

ohos-rawfile-sys

Raw Bindings to the rawfile API of OpenHarmony

rm_rf

Force-remove a file/directory and all descendants

sosaku-cli

CLI for the sosaku JSON Query language

xvc-test-helper

Test helper command for Xvc

tormov

TORrent MOVer, a simple tool to move (or link) regexed folders with no incomplete files

rusoto_efs

AWS SDK for Rust - Amazon Elastic File System @ 2015-02-01

krx

Open and process any file on Windows from the command line

rrename

" Opinionated tool to rename files in batch. Match regular expression, replace some characters I consider noise to kebab case

quote-cli

Displays quotes

hacktyper

A terminal-based typing simulator that mimics hacking scenes from movies

parallel_downloader

A robust, concurrent file downloader designed to be resilient, supporting automatic retries, crash recovery, and download verification

okane-golden

supporting Golden Testing

cargo-audit-build

Audit cargo build.rs files

structom-codegen

codegen for structom serialization

kwik

A set of useful tools I use for my Ph.D. research.

lwext4_rust

lwext4 in Rust

opentalk-client-data-persistence-filesystem

Data persistence on the file system for opentalk-client

glu

Unpacks a Markdown document full of code snippets into a temp directory

bt_file_utils

Basic file read operation. Returns string with file. The file is either a relative location or passes via an environment variable

rusty_phoenix_file_to_crate

allows to integrate text files as canvas inside rust program. To generate customizable html pages or markdown for example.

seq-data-file

sequential data file

assistant-cli

A command-line tool to read and format file contents, with clipboard support

tree-owners

Find all owners (user and group) inside a directory tree

pure_fat

A super flexible library for parsing FAT file systems

file_picker

Prompts the user to pick a file interactively from the current directory

sizef

#[no_std] crate to format file sizes

codama-syn-helpers

Extension of syn for Codama

fs-change-notifier

watch file changes inside given directory

file_diff

An atomic utility for diffing files in testing

hardy-file-cla

A File-based convergence layer