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The Rust Programming Language, 3rd Edition
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The Rust Programming Language, 3rd Edition

by Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, Chris Krycho
March 2026
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
15h 47m
English
No Starch Press
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12 AN I/O PROJECT: BUILDING A COMMAND LINE PROGRAM

This chapter is a recap of the many skills you’ve learned so far and an exploration of a few more standard library features. We’ll build a command line tool that interacts with file and command line input/output to practice some of the Rust concepts you now have under your belt.

Rust’s speed, safety, single binary output, and cross-platform support make it an ideal language for creating command line tools, so for our project, we’ll make our own version of the classic command line search tool grep (globally search a regular expression and print). In the simplest use case, grep searches a ...

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