Rhiza

Rhiza is a simple and easy-to-use tool to create shortcuts and add entries to the path.

easily create shortcuts / add applications into your path and windows menu!

Rhiza is for windows only

Installation

via cargo

cargo install rhiza

via winget

winget install skardyy.rhiza

via installer

install and run the .msi installer from here

Usage

Crawl

rhz crawl

Crawl.mp4

to find potential apps to link (walks recursively) defaults:

• ~\Desktop
• ~\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
• C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

• Crawl is mostly to find gui apps and games
• there are more filtering and logic to prompt you only for relevant apps to link
• you will be prompted for new apps you didn't link to before (apps you said no before won't be prompted again)

you can also

rhz crawl "/PATH/TO/DIR"

Add

you can search for a single app across the entire file-system (ignores hidden folders and Windows/Microsoft ones)

rhz add

Add.mp4

Path

same as add ~ just for adding into path

rhz path

Path.mp4

Note

For both the Path and Add functions
if the user have fzf installed in the machine and he didn't specify a search term
fzf will open to search for the recommended files

Path.with.fzf.mp4

View

you can view all linked apps and their config

rhz view

it will print it in a formatted json

Remove

removes a key added by rhiza.

• removes it completely from rhiza config and the path
• removes it from the windows menu too

rhz rm

Run

finally you can create the lnk files using

rhz run

run.mp4

it will create the bin and src files and allow you to use your shortcuts in the shell and in the widnows menu! (⊞ Win)

Tip

did you know?
Rhiza means "Root" in greek
rooting those apps for you