A system fetch tool for Linux, written in Rust.

Ruturaj Nanoti

Last update: Nov 21, 2022

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Command-line fetchit

Overview

fetchit

A system fetch tool for Linux, written in Rust.

fetchit is a simple system info tool, written in Rust, for Linux based operating systems. It offers a few customization options, which are demonstrated in the screenshots below,

You can change the colors for the top and bottom part of the ascii art, as well as the color for the bounding box.
The path to a custom ascii text file can be passed to fetchit using the -f option.

For a custom ascii text file, it is recommended that the ascii art should be contained in a box of 10x28, i.e. 28 spaces wide, and 10 lines in height. If this condition is not met (especially, the height, i.e. the number of lines) then fetchit will fall back to the default ascii asrt. See Usage for more details.

Examples

Installation

You can install fetchit using any of the following methods,

Arch Linux

fetchit is available in the AUR. If you have an AUR helper (for example paru),

$ paru -S fetchit-git

Or alternatively,

# Clone the AUR Package.
$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/fetchit-git.git

# Change directory into the repo.
$ cd fetchit-git

# Install it, using `makepkg`.
$ makepkg -si

Install from Releases

Head over to Releases to grab a binary for fetchit. Once downloaded,

# Navigate to the directory where you have downloaded the tar file.
$ tar -xvf fetchit-0.1.1-x86_64.tar.gz

# Copy the executable to `~/.local/bin/`, and if this directory doesn't exist create it.
$ if [[ ! -d ~/.local/bin ]] ; then mkdir -p ~/.local/bin/ ; fi
$ cp ./fetchit ~/.local/bin/

Finally, make sure, you add ~/.local/bin/ to PATH, if you haven't already.

Building from Source

# First of all install Rust, see "https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install".
$ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

# Clone the git repo.
$ git clone https://github.com/Ruturajn/fetchit.git

# Change directory into the repo.
$ cd ./fetchit

# Build the package.
$ cargo build --release

# Create ~/.cargo/bin/ if it does not exist.
$ if [[ ! -d ~/.cargo/bin ]] ; then mkdir -p ~/.cargo/bin/ ; fi

# Copy the executable to `~/.cargo/bin/`.
$ cp ./target/release/fetchit ~/.cargo/bin/

Note: Please feel free to open Issues and Pull requests, if you feel something is out of order, or if you are facing any problems.

Usage

fetchit 0.1.1
Ruturajn <[email protected]>
A System fetch tool for Linux written in Rust

USAGE:
    fetchit [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -b, --bottom-color <BOTTOM_COLOR>
            Color for the bottom part of the ascii art : black, red, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan,
            white, green

    -f, --file-path <FILE_PATH>
            File path for the ascii text file

    -h, --help
            Print help information

    -o, --outer-box-color <OUTER_BOX_COLOR>
            Color for the box : black, red, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white, green

    -t, --top-color <TOP_COLOR>
            Color for the top part of the ascii art : black, red, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan,
            white, green

    -V, --version
            Print version information

References

https://github.com/anhsirk0/fetch-master-6000

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Comments

refactor: remove match arm

.or_else gets called if the value of the Result is Err. At the end we call unwrap_or_else which either uses the value in if it is Ok (i.e., some package manager has been found) or it uses "Unknown".

opened by mainrs 8
`cargo test` failing `fallback_session`
When running cargo test, I get the error message:

running 3 tests test tests::xdg_current ... ok test tests::xdg_session ... ok test tests::fallback_session ... FAILED failures: ---- tests::fallback_session stdout ---- thread 'tests::fallback_session' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)` left: `"i3"`, right: `"LG3D"`', src/lib.rs:229:9 note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace failures: tests::fallback_session

I'm using i3wm, which explains why the call to get_session_name is returning i3 for the left of the comparison. However, I don't understand how the fallback_session test is supposed to succeed, as no environment variables are set to the value LG3D. It seems to me like the fallback_session test should be changed on line 221, to set the environment variable DESKTOP_SESSION to LG3D, in order to test whether get_session_name works with the DESKTOP_SESSION environment variable.

For testing the fallback value, the expected fallback should be Unknown if I'm not mistaken, however the environment variables aren't being cleared in order to test that (since get_session_name still seems to be returning i3wm, which seems like a different issue altogether.

Sorry if I'm completely misinterpreting the situation, as I'm not totally sure what the intention is with the tests, hence why I have created an issue rather than fixing the test myself and submitting a pull request. Although with some further info I'm happy to fix this issue and submit a pull request (provided there is an issue at all)

Many thanks again!
opened by tripleab 2
refactor: fix clippy warnings

I ran cargo clippy --fix to fix some linting errors. If you want try it out on the current commit and see what it shows you as output. Make sure to use cargo clippy to get the errors printed to the console. Since you seem to be new to Rust it might be a good idea!

opened by mainrs 2
Fix clippy warning by changing for loop to an iterator

clippy was giving a needless_range_loop warning after pull request #5. I have reformatted in order to use an iterator. This warning could also be prevented by using #[allow(needless_range_loop)] above the aforementioned range loop.

opened by tripleab 1

Releases(v0.1.1)

v0.1.1(Aug 24, 2022)
Changelog:

Fixed Unknown OS issue, the file /etc/os-release not being read → Issue 1.

Added support for some more WMs by checking _NET_WM_NAME, if the XDG environment variables are not set.

Refactored match and if - else statements for color argument handling → PR 5.

Handling of the packages count improved → PR 3.

Added Hostname detection → PR 6 .

Reduced binary size from 9.5 MB to 770 KB.

fetchit now available in the AUR → PR 4.

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
fetchit-0.1.1-x86_64.tar.gz(358.74 KB)
v0.1.0(Aug 20, 2022)

This is the first release of fetchit. Try it out 😄.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
fetchit-0.1.0-x86_64.tar.gz(2.17 MB)