RMX ⚡

Blazing fast alternative to rm command written in Rust - 2x faster on average!

🚀 Features

• ⚡ Blazing Fast - 2x faster for medium-large files
• 📊 Always Shows Stats - Deleted files count, total size, and execution time
• 🔄 Smart Parallelism - Adaptive threshold (2000+ files)
• 🎯 Cross-platform - Works on Linux and macOS
• 💪 Highly Optimized - LTO, aggressive inlining, lock-free atomics
• ✅ Full Compatibility - Drop-in replacement for rm -rf

📥 Installation

Quick Install (Linux & macOS)

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ismoilovdevml/rmx/main/install.sh | bash

Manual Installation

Download pre-built binaries from Releases:

# Linux x86_64
wget https://github.com/ismoilovdevml/rmx/releases/latest/download/rmx-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
tar xzf rmx-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz
sudo mv rmx /usr/local/bin/

# macOS (Intel)
wget https://github.com/ismoilovdevml/rmx/releases/latest/download/rmx-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
tar xzf rmx-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
sudo mv rmx /usr/local/bin/

# macOS (Apple Silicon)
wget https://github.com/ismoilovdevml/rmx/releases/latest/download/rmx-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
tar xzf rmx-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
sudo mv rmx /usr/local/bin/

Build from Source

1. Install Rust (if not already installed):

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

2. Clone and build:

git clone https://github.com/ismoilovdevml/rmx.git
cd rmx
cargo build --release
sudo cp target/release/rmx /usr/local/bin/

Uninstall

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ismoilovdevml/rmx/main/uninstall.sh | bash

Or manually:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/rmx

🎯 Usage

Basic usage

rmx -rf /path/to/directory

Example output

✓ Deleted: 10000 files, 1 directories
✓ Total size: 9.77 MB
✓ Time taken: 300.85ms

Verbose mode (shows each file)

rmx -rfv /path/to/directory

Available flags

rmx -r          # Remove directories recursively
rmx -f          # Force deletion, ignore errors
rmx -i          # Interactive mode (prompt before deletion)
rmx -v          # Verbose (show each file being deleted)
rmx -d          # Remove empty directories

# Combine flags
rmx -rf /tmp/test
rmx -rfi /important/data

Other commands

rmx version    # Show version
rmx about      # Show program information
rmx dev        # Show developer info

⚡ Performance

Test	Files	rm	rmx	Speedup
1,000 × 1MB	1,000	0.06s	0.03s	2.0x ⚡
5,000 × 1KB	5,000	0.25s	0.12s	2.1x ⚡
Nested	1,000	0.06s	0.03s	2.0x ⚡

Tested on macOS Apple Silicon

Best for:

• Node.js node_modules cleanup
• Build artifacts (target/, dist/)
• Log directories
• CI/CD cleanup tasks

🏗️ Optimizations

• Adaptive Parallelism - Sequential for <2000 files, parallel for ≥2000 files
• Lock-free Atomics - AtomicUsize and AtomicU64 with Relaxed ordering
• Cached Metadata - Uses DirEntry::metadata() for filesystem cache
• Aggressive Inlining - Hot path functions marked #[inline(always)]

🛠️ Development

Build

cargo build --release

Run tests

cargo test
cargo clippy --release
cargo fmt

📝 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file

🙏 Credits

Inspired by Manuchehr Usmonov's C implementation of rm alternative.

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Made with ❤️ and Rust 🦀