Tiny Commands Toolchain: TCT

A 1.62MB (release profile) monolithic commands kit for casual terminal usage without any run-time dependency. MMade in 171 LOC (lines of code).

Usage

For execute a command, just run the tct with the first argument being the same all commands require at least 1 argument.

Examples:

command	launch string
cat	tct cat some_file
grep	tct cat a_string some_file
mkdir	tct mkdir new_dir

Benchmarks

Comparision of some tools. Everything with gnu prefix means that's from gnu-coreutils's Arch package (version 9.0-2).

Notes: Some tools as rg and bat has a LOT of features and it's beautiful for user mode. For this reason, some benchmarks will show them as slower than other commands.

All benchmarks were performed on a 1.89GB RAM 2.6GHz Celeron Dual Core CPU machine~~/potato~~.

cat

In a 10KB file:

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
cat lorem.txt	1.7 ± 1.4	0.0	5.2	1.00
./target/release/tct cat lorem.txt	2.3 ± 1.7	0.0	5.9	1.33 ± 1.45
bat lorem.txt	97.8 ± 5.9	92.6	119.5	56.09 ± 45.92

In a 10MB file:

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
cat biglorem.txt	5.9 ± 2.7	1.7	12.8	2.65 ± 2.36
./target/release/tct cat biglorem.txt	2.2 ± 1.7	0.0	6.4	1.00
bat biglorem.txt	121.7 ± 6.4	116.4	139.6	54.39 ± 41.59

grep

Searching for all occurrences of Ipsum in a 10KB file

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
grep Ipsum lorem.txt	5.9 ± 2.8	1.5	10.9	2.56 ± 2.32
./target/release/tct grep Ipsum lorem.txt	2.3 ± 1.8	0.0	5.9	1.00
rg Ipsum lorem.txt	8.5 ± 2.9	3.5	14.2	3.71 ± 3.13

Searching for all occurrences of Ipsum in a 10MB file

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
grep Ipsum biglorem.txt	5.7 ± 2.9	1.7	11.6	1.00
./target/release/tct grep Ipsum biglorem.txt	36.3 ± 5.7	32.3	60.4	6.33 ± 3.30
rg Ipsum biglorem.txt	24.8 ± 5.1	13.8	33.1	4.33 ± 2.33

Compile Tips

Be sure to compile with release profile (cargo build --release). If you're compiling for local usage, sill can set RUSTFLAGS with -C target-cpu=native before compile (RUSTFLAGS='-C target-cpu=native' cargo build --release on *NIX, set RUSTFLAGS='-C target-cpu=native' ; cargo build --release on Windows) to use your CPU specific instructions for local optimization.

TODO

• (Add more benchmarks)
• (Optimize grep for large files)
• (Improve README)
• (Update manpages)