rustrun

rustrun is a small program to make Rust into a script language. Copy rustrun to ~/bin/ or /usr/bin/ and start your script files with #!/home/your-user-name/bin/rustrun or #!/usr/bin/rustrun respectively.

Installation

You can choose whether you want to install it locally for your user only or globally for all users. Doing both is perfectly possible, but unnecessary.

• For your user:
  • Either copy rustrun to ~/bin and add ~/bin to your $PATH,
  • or run ./install_local (it assumes you use bash or that ~/bin is already in $PATH)
• For all users:
  • Either copy rustrun to /usr/bin,
  • or run sudo ./install_global

Usage

Start your Rust file with #!/home/your-user-name/bin/rustrun or #!/usr/bin/rustrun depending on where you installed it to, give the file execution permission (e.g. chmod +x your-file.rs) and execute it (e.g. ./your-file.rs).

Example

Run ./hello_world.rs if you want to try rustrun out (it assumes that you installed it globally since there is no way for me to guess your username):

#!/usr/bin/rustrun

fn main()
{
	println!("Hello, World!");
}

Contributing

Contributions are appreciated, although rustrun doesn't strike me as something that could be meaningfully improved.

License

rustrun is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.

For more see LICENSE.md.