dy_grep

A custom made CLI to search tool with a cornerstone utility in the Unix world for efficiently searching text patterns in files. It leverages regular expressions for precise matching, scans files line-by-line, offers control over output, and its value, powerful tool for professionals working with text data.

How to contribute to this project:

If you don't have git on your machine install it.

Fork this repository

Fork this repository by clicking on the fork button on the top of this page. This will create a copy of this repository in your account.

Clone the repository

Now clone the forked repository to your machine. Go to your GitHub account, open the forked repository, click on the code button and then click on open with Github Desktop ot you can click on copy to clipboard icon if you want to use git bash.

Note: Further command are for Git bash users not for the Git Desktop Users

For Git Desktop users ---> Now just click on Open with VS code and start your contribution.

Commit Changes

After you have updated the files,click on 'Commit to main' and then click on push origin.

Now Come back to Github web and click on contribute to submit your changes for review.

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Steps for Git Bash Users

Open a terminal and run the following git command:

git clone "url you just copied"

where "url you just copied" (without the quotation marks) is the url to this repository (your fork of this project). See the previous steps to obtain the url.

For example:

git clone "your-cloned-link here"

Here you're copying the contents of the first-contributions repository on GitHub to your computer.

Create a branch

Change to the repository directory on your computer (if you are not already there):

cd desktop

Now create a branch using the git checkout command:

git checkout -b <your-new-branch-name>

For example:

git checkout -b add-new-file

(The name of the branch does not need to have the word add in it, but it's a reasonable thing to include because the purpose of this branch is to add your name to a list.)

Make necessary changes and commit those changes

Now open add or edit file in a text editor. Add code for any existing algorithm in other language or add some new algorithms. Make sure to update correspond README.md file if needed. Now, save the file.

If you go to the project directory and execute the command git status, you'll see there are changes.

Add those changes to the branch you just created using the git add command:

git add "name of the file you add or edit"

Now commit those changes using the git commit command:

git commit -m "Add message for the change"

Push changes to GitHub

Push your changes using the command git push:

git push origin <add-your-branch-name>

replacing <add-your-branch-name> with the name of the branch you created earlier.

Submit your changes for review

If you go to your repository on GitHub, you'll see a Contribute button. Click on that button.

click on Open pull request.

click on Create pull request.

click on Create pull request.

Steps to set it up locally:

On terminal window type below commands:

cargo install

Now to make it work,
Note:- poem.txt is just a sample text file name , and remember to keep files in same directory

cargo run (pattern you want to separate) (name of text file where you want to apply dy_grep).txt > output.txt