ut – Rust based CLI utilities for devs and IT

In plain words

ut is a Rust-based CLI toolkit for developers and IT professionals that provides quick access to common utilities without visiting external websites. It includes tools for encoding, hashing, data generation, text processing, calculations, JSON operations, regex testing, datetime conversion, QR code generation, and color conversion. The toolkit offers a simple command-line interface for tasks like base64 encoding, UUID generation, case conversion, HTTP status checks, and Unicode reference lookups.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

A Rust based utilty toolbox for developers. Inspired from https://it-tools.tech - ksdme/ut

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, I find myself reaching for tools like it-tools.tech or other random sites every now and then during development or debugging. So, I built a toolkit with a sane and simple CLI interface for most of those tools. For the curious and lazy, at the moment, ut has tools for, - Encoding: base64 (encode, decode), url…

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