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Common rust command-line macros and utilities, to write shell-script like tasks in a clean, natural and rusty way
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# cmd_lib



## Rust command-line library



Common rust command-line macros and utilities, to write shell-script like tasks

easily in rust programming language. Available at [crates.io](https://crates.io/crates/cmd_lib).



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### Why you need this

If you need to run some external commands in rust, the

[std::process::Command](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/process/struct.Command.html) is a good

abstraction layer on top of different OS syscalls. It provides fine-grained control over

how a new process should be spawned, and it allows you to wait for process to finish and check the

exit status or collect all of its output. However, when

[Redirection](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirection_(computing)) or

[Piping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirection_(computing)#Piping) is needed, you need to

set up the parent and child IO handles manually, like this in the

[rust cookbook](https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/os/external.html), which is often tedious

and [error prone](https://github.com/ijackson/rust-rfcs/blob/command/text/0000-command-ergonomics.md#currently-accepted-wrong-programs).



A lot of developers just choose shell(sh, bash, ...) scripts for such tasks, by using `<` to redirect input,

`>` to redirect output and `|` to pipe outputs. In my experience, this is **the only good parts** of shell script.

You can find all kinds of pitfalls and mysterious tricks to make other parts of shell script work. As the shell

scripts grow, they will ultimately be unmaintainable and no one wants to touch them any more.



This cmd_lib library is trying to provide the redirection and piping capabilities, and other facilities to make writing

shell-script like tasks easily **without launching any shell**. For the

[rust cookbook examples](https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook/os/external.html),

they can usually be implemented as one line of rust macro with the help of this library, as in the

[examples/rust_cookbook.rs](https://github.com/rust-shell-script/rust_cmd_lib/blob/master/examples/rust_cookbook.rs).

Since they are rust code, you can always rewrite them in rust natively in the future, if necessary without spawning external commands.



### What this library looks like



To get a first impression, here is an example from

[examples/dd_test.rs](https://github.com/rust-shell-script/rust_cmd_lib/blob/master/examples/dd_test.rs):



```rust

run_cmd! (

    info "Dropping caches at first";

    sudo bash -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches";

    info "Running with thread_num: $thread_num, block_size: $block_size";

)?;

let cnt = DATA_SIZE / thread_num / block_size;

let now = Instant::now();

(0..thread_num).into_par_iter().for_each(|i| {

    let off = cnt * i;

    let bandwidth = run_fun!(

        sudo bash -c "dd if=$file of=/dev/null bs=$block_size skip=$off count=$cnt 2>&1"

        | awk r#"/copied/{print $(NF-1) " " $NF}"#

    )

    .unwrap_or_else(|_| cmd_die!("thread $i failed"));

    info!("thread {i} bandwidth: {bandwidth}");

});

let total_bandwidth = Byte::from_bytes((DATA_SIZE / now.elapsed().as_secs()) as u128).get_appropriate_unit(true);

info!("Total bandwidth: {total_bandwidth}/s");

```



Output will be like this:



```console

➜  rust_cmd_lib git:(master) ✗ cargo run --example dd_test -- -b 4096 -f /dev/nvme0n1 -t 4

    Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 0.04s

     Running `target/debug/examples/dd_test -b 4096 -f /dev/nvme0n1 -t 4`

[INFO ] Dropping caches at first

[INFO ] Running with thread_num: 4, block_size: 4096

[INFO ] thread 3 bandwidth: 317 MB/s

[INFO ] thread 1 bandwidth: 289 MB/s

[INFO ] thread 0 bandwidth: 281 MB/s

[INFO ] thread 2 bandwidth: 279 MB/s

[INFO ] Total bandwidth: 1.11 GiB/s

```



### What this library provides



#### Macros to run external commands

- [`run_cmd!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.run_cmd.html) -> [`CmdResult`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/type.CmdResult.html)



```rust

let msg = "I love rust";

run_cmd!(echo $msg)?;

run_cmd!(echo "This is the message: $msg")?;



// pipe commands are also supported

let dir = "/var/log";

run_cmd!(du -ah $dir | sort -hr | head -n 10)?;



// or a group of commands

// if any command fails, just return Err(...)

let file = "/tmp/f";

let keyword = "rust";

run_cmd! {

    cat ${file} | grep ${keyword};

    echo "bad cmd" >&2;

    ignore ls /nofile;

    date;

    ls oops;

    cat oops;

}?;

```



- [`run_fun!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.run_fun.html) -> [`FunResult`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/type.FunResult.html)



```rust

let version = run_fun!(rustc --version)?;

eprintln!("Your rust version is {}", version);



// with pipes

let n = run_fun!(echo "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" | wc -w)?;

eprintln!("There are {} words in above sentence", n);

```



#### Abstraction without overhead



Since all the macros' lexical analysis and syntactic analysis happen at compile time, it can

basically generate code the same as calling `std::process` APIs manually. It also includes

command type checking, so most of the errors can be found at compile time instead of at

runtime. With tools like `rust-analyzer`, it can give you real-time feedback for broken

commands being used.



You can use `cargo expand` to check the generated code.



#### Intuitive parameters passing

When passing parameters to `run_cmd!` and `run_fun!` macros, if they are not part to rust

[String literals](https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/tokens.html#string-literals), they will be

converted to string as an atomic component, so you don't need to quote them. The parameters will be

like `$a` or `${a}` in `run_cmd!` or `run_fun!` macros.



```rust

let dir = "my folder";

run_cmd!(echo "Creating $dir at /tmp")?;

run_cmd!(mkdir -p /tmp/$dir)?;



// or with group commands:

let dir = "my folder";

run_cmd!(echo "Creating $dir at /tmp"; mkdir -p /tmp/$dir)?;

```

You can consider "" as glue, so everything inside the quotes will be treated as a single atomic component.



If they are part of [Raw string literals](https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/tokens.html#raw-string-literals),

there will be no string interpolation, the same as in idiomatic rust. However, you can always use `format!` macro

to form the new string. For example:

```rust

// string interpolation

let key_word = "time";

let awk_opts = format!(r#"/{}/ {{print $(NF-3) " " $(NF-1) " " $NF}}"#, key_word);

run_cmd!(ping -c 10 www.google.com | awk $awk_opts)?;

```

Notice here `$awk_opts` will be treated as single option passing to awk command.



If you want to use dynamic parameters, you can use `$[]` to access vector variable:

```rust

let gopts = vec![vec!["-l", "-a", "/"], vec!["-a", "/var"]];

for opts in gopts {

    run_cmd!(ls $[opts])?;

}

```



#### Redirection and Piping

Right now piping and stdin, stdout, stderr redirection are supported. Most parts are the same as in

[bash scripts](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirections.html#Redirections).



#### Logging



This library provides convenient macros and builtin commands for logging. All messages which

are printed to stderr will be logged. It will also include the full running commands in the error

result.



```rust

let dir: &str = "folder with spaces";

run_cmd!(mkdir /tmp/$dir; ls /tmp/$dir)?;

run_cmd!(mkdir /tmp/$dir; ls /tmp/$dir; rmdir /tmp/$dir)?;

// output:

// [INFO ] mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp/folder with spaces’: File exists

// Error: Running ["mkdir" "/tmp/folder with spaces"] exited with error; status code: 1

```



It is using rust [log crate](https://crates.io/crates/log), and you can use your actual favorite

logger implementation. Notice that if you don't provide any logger, it will use env_logger to print

messages from process's stderr.



You can also mark your `main()` function with `#[cmd_lib::main]`, which will log error from

main() by default. Like this:

```console

[ERROR] FATAL: Running ["mkdir" "/tmp/folder with spaces"] exited with error; status code: 1

```



#### Builtin commands

##### cd

cd: set process current directory.

```rust

run_cmd! (

    cd /tmp;

    ls | wc -l;

)?;

```

Notice that builtin `cd` will only change with current scope

and it will restore the previous current directory when it

exits the scope.



Use `std::env::set_current_dir` if you want to change the current

working directory for the whole program.



##### ignore



Ignore errors for command execution.



##### echo

Print messages to stdout.

```console

-n     do not output the trailing newline

```



##### error, warn, info, debug, trace



Print messages to logging with different levels. You can also use the normal logging macros,

if you don't need to do logging inside the command group.



```rust

run_cmd!(error "This is an error message")?;

run_cmd!(warn "This is a warning message")?;

run_cmd!(info "This is an information message")?;

// output:

// [ERROR] This is an error message

// [WARN ] This is a warning message

// [INFO ] This is an information message

```



#### Low-level process spawning macros



[`spawn!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.spawn.html) macro executes the whole command as a child process, returning a handle to it. By

default, stdin, stdout and stderr are inherited from the parent. The process will run in the

background, so you can run other stuff concurrently. You can call [`wait()`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/struct.CmdChildren.html#method.wait) to wait

for the process to finish.



With [`spawn_with_output!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.spawn_with_output.html) you can get output by calling

[`wait_with_output()`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/struct.FunChildren.html#method.wait_with_output),

[`wait_with_all()`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/struct.FunChildren.html#method.wait_with_all)

or even do stream

processing with [`wait_with_pipe()`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/struct.FunChildren.html#method.wait_with_pipe).



There are also other useful APIs, and you can check the docs for more details.



```rust

let mut proc = spawn!(ping -c 10 192.168.0.1)?;

// do other stuff

// ...

proc.wait()?;



let mut proc = spawn_with_output!(/bin/cat file.txt | sed s/a/b/)?;

// do other stuff

// ...

let output = proc.wait_with_output()?;



spawn_with_output!(journalctl)?.wait_with_pipe(&mut |pipe| {

    BufReader::new(pipe)

        .lines()

        .filter_map(|line| line.ok())

        .filter(|line| line.find("usb").is_some())

        .take(10)

        .for_each(|line| println!("{}", line));

})?;

```



#### Macro to register your own commands

Declare your function with the right signature, and register it with [`use_custom_cmd!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.use_custom_cmd.html) macro:



```rust

fn my_cmd(env: &mut CmdEnv) -> CmdResult {

    let args = env.get_args();

    let (res, stdout, stderr) = spawn_with_output! {

        orig_cmd $[args]

            --long-option xxx

            --another-option yyy

    }?

    .wait_with_all();

    writeln!(env.stdout(), "{}", stdout)?;

    writeln!(env.stderr(), "{}", stderr)?;

    res

}



use_custom_cmd!(my_cmd);

```



#### Macros to define, get and set thread-local global variables

- [`tls_init!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.tls_init.html) to define thread local global variable

- [`tls_get!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.tls_get.html) to get the value

- [`tls_set!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.tls_set.html) to set the value

```rust

tls_init!(DELAY, f64, 1.0);

const DELAY_FACTOR: f64 = 0.8;

tls_set!(DELAY, |d| *d *= DELAY_FACTOR);

let d = tls_get!(DELAY);

// check more examples in examples/tetris.rs

```



### Other Notes



#### Environment Variables



You can use [std::env::var](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/env/fn.var.html) to fetch the environment variable

key from the current process. It will report error if the environment variable is not present, and it also

includes other checks to avoid silent failures.



To set environment variables, you can use [std::env::set_var](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/env/fn.set_var.html).

There are also other related APIs in the [std::env](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/env/index.html) module.



To set environment variables for the command only, you can put the assignments before the command.

Like this:

```rust

run_cmd!(FOO=100 /tmp/test_run_cmd_lib.sh)?;

```



#### Security Notes

Using macros can actually avoid command injection, since we do parsing before variable substitution.

For example, below code is fine even without any quotes:

```rust

fn cleanup_uploaded_file(file: &Path) -> CmdResult {

    run_cmd!(/bin/rm -f /var/upload/$file)

}

```

It is not the case in bash, which will always do variable substitution at first.



#### Glob/Wildcard



This library does not provide glob functions, to avoid silent errors and other surprises.

You can use the [glob](https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/glob) package instead.



#### Thread Safety



This library tries very hard to not set global states, so parallel `cargo test` can be executed just fine.

The only known APIs not supported in multi-thread environment are the

[`tls_init!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.tls_init.html)/[`tls_get!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.tls_get.html)/[`tls_set!`](https://docs.rs/cmd_lib/latest/cmd_lib/macro.tls_set.html) macros, and you should only use them for *thread local* variables.



License: MIT OR Apache-2.0