superwhich

superwhich is a cross-platform CLI tool that was initially meant to be a faster drop-in replacement for Windows' where command but since it uses Jaro-Winkler distance to calculate the similarity between the strings it can be called a sort of "smart" which, it can handle some typos and highlights the section of the executables that matches the search pattern.

Installation

• From crates.io: cargo install superwhich
• From GitHub: cargo install --git https://github.com/DarkCeptor44/superwhich
• Manually (after cloning the repo locally): cargo install --path .
• From releases.

Usage

$ swhich -h
Cross-platform smart which alternative

Usage: swhich [OPTIONS] <PATTERN>

Arguments:
  <PATTERN>  The search pattern

Options:
  -c, --color <COLOR>  Color of the highlighted text (off for no color) [default: blue]
  -t, --print-time     Print time elapsed
  -h, --help           Print help
  -V, --version        Print version

Todo

• Make it faster (currently at ~270ms on Windows).
• Find a better way to match the pattern to the name when printing the result.

Benchmarks

The benchmarks were run using Hyperfine.

Machine A

• AMD64, 32GB RAM, Ryzen 7 3800X, Windows 10.

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
swhich pnpm	274.3 ± 4.0	264.7	279.0	2.55 ± 0.09
where pnpm	107.6 ± 3.7	104.2	119.9	1.00

Machine B

• ARM64, 1GB RAM, Orange Pi Zero2, Debian 12.

Command	Mean [ms]	Min [ms]	Max [ms]	Relative
swhich lookfor	17.4 ± 1.2	16.2	20.3	6.41 ± 0.71
which lookfor	2.7 ± 0.2	2.3	4.5	1.00

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.