Installing rust toolchain

Lately, I have come to know of a command line search utility called [ripgrep][3], coded in rust, that is capable of faster code searches (at least for my use cases) than grep or [ag][4]. So I got interested in building the latest versions of rg (ripgrep binary name) directly from its github master branch rather than waiting for its [release binaries][5].

So came the need to install the rust toolchain on my machine. Luckily, installing that was super easy; here are the steps:

1. Navigate to https://www.rustup.rs in your web browser.

   • Based on your OS, it will provide you the install instructions. For RHEL 6.6, it asked me to run this curl command¹:

     curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
     

2. Once I ran that command, I was faced with the below prompt:

   ![Outcome of running the curl .. | sh command][1]

   Everything looked good, except that I did not want the script to modify the PATH variable for me. So I went with the 2) Customize .. option and disabled that. The main thing to make note of was that all the binaries would be installed in ~/.cargo/bin.

3. So after running the above, I updated the PATH to include ~/.cargo/bin in my shell config.

That’s it! You can then verify the installation by doing a version check.

rustc --version

You can learn more about rustup from this [README.md][2].