IDENTIC

What is Identic?

Identic was a homework assignment for the CMPE230 Systems Programming course at the Bogazici University. The assignment was to create a command line tool that could be used to find replicas of a file in specified directories. The tool was implemented in python and was tested on a Linux system. I decided to create a rust version of the tool as well. My main objective of this project is to learn rust and how to use it in a real world application.

It includes following features of rust:

• Creating a macro
• Creating a struct
• Implementing a constructor for the struct
• Using the Option type
• Using the Result type
• Structuring the code using modules
• Walkdir library
• Hashmap library
• Creating sha256 hashes of file contents and names
• Iterating through a vector, filtering and mapping values
• Moving, ownership and borrowing

Folder Structure

• Cargo.toml : TOML file for the project
• src/ : Source folder
  • main.rs : Main file for the project
  • lib.rs : Library file for the project
  • file.rs : file module that contains a struct and some helper functions for files
  • helpers/ : helpers module that contains 2 helper modules
    • mod.rs : helper module
    • config.rs : config module that contains a struct for configuring the project
    • output.rs : output module that contains functions for outputting information to the user
• test_cases/ : Test cases folder
  • file: "g"
  • folder/
    • file_in_folder: "g"
    • folder_in_folder/
      • file_in_folder: "g"
      • folder/