A Rust implementation of GNU Grep. This project is an initial release and may contain bugs.

cargo install uu_grep

Or use cargo-binstall to install a pre-built binary:

cargo binstall uu_grep

You can try grep directly in your browser on the uutils playground. Arguments (and a full command) can be passed through the URL via the cmd query parameter, for example:

printf '🚀 rocket\n🛰️ satellite\n🌙 moon\n⭐ star\n' | grep 🌙

Run it in the playground

Download Rust at: https://rustup.rs/

# Check out this repository
git clone https://github.com/uutils/grep
cd grep

# Build a release version
cargo build --release

# Run!
./target/release/grep --help

# Run tests (if needed; after making changes)
cargo test

This project uses pre-commit; run pre-commit install to enable the git hooks.

• Does not take LANG, etc., into account for handling file encodings (non-UTF8 matches are treated as binary)
• No localization support yet
• Performances need to be improved

Below is the evolution of how many GNU tests uutils passes.

To contribute to uutils, please see CONTRIBUTING.

uutils is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

GNU Grep is licensed under the GPL 3.0 or later.