tgrep — grep but with time

tgrep is a much simpler version of grep but with a precise scope in mind: print, for each line matched, the delta of time between that line and the previous one.

Why? Personally I use it quite often when I'm debugging a performance related bug.

With tgrep I can easily find where a piece of code took a lot of time or see if some output took much more that others to compute, and that by simply add a couple of logs.

A couple of notice:

• This is not a benchmark tool. It's not precise enough and make sense to use it only for debug purposes.
• Do not forget that stdout in a pipe will be buffering. Sometimes you have to turn it off.

Example

$ ./a.out < recipes.txt | tgrep "HALP"
0ns     | starting HALP
148ns   | HALP processing 'coniglio alla ligure'
16us    | HALP processing 'coniglio alla ligure' end
98ns    | HALP processing 'focaccia'
9us     | HALP processing 'focaccia' end
118us   | HALP processing 'pesto con le noci'
69ms    | HALP processing 'pesto con le noci' end
154us   | HALP processing 'torta di riso'
7us     | HALP processing 'torta di riso' end

Installation

$ cargo install --git https://github.com/Bnz-0/tgrep

Usage

$ tgrep -h
Grep but with time

Usage: tgrep [OPTIONS] [PATTERN]

Arguments:
  [PATTERN]

Options:
  -i, --ignore-case           Ignore case distinctions in patterns and data
  -u, --fix-unit <TIME_UNIT>  Fix the unit time used while printing [possible values: ns, us, ms, s]
  -h, --help                  Print help
  -V, --version               Print version