Gum is a tool for glamorous shell scripts. Leverage the power of Bubbles and Lip Gloss in your scripts and aliases without writing any Go code.
Gum provides highly configurable, ready-to-use utilities to help you write useful shell scripts and dotfiles aliases with just a few lines of code.
This is free and open source software.
Available commands:
- Choose: Choose an option from a list of choices. You can also select multiple items with the
--limitor--no-limitflag, which determines the maximum of items that can be chosen. - Confirm: Ask a user to confirm an action. Exits with code 0 (affirmative) or 1 (negative) depending on selection.
- File: Prompt the user to select a file from the file tree.
- Filter: Filter a list of values with fuzzy matching.
- Format: Processes and formats bodies of text. gum format can parse markdown, template strings, and named emojis.
- Input: Prompt for input with a simple command.
- Join: Combine text vertically or horizontally. Use this command with gum style to build layouts and pretty output.
- Pager: Scroll through a long document with line numbers and a fully customizable viewport.
- Spin: Display a spinner while running a script or command. The spinner will automatically stop after the given command exits.
- Style: Pretty print (applies coloring, borders, spacing to text) any string with any layout with one command.
- Table: Select a row from some tabular data.
- Write: Prompt for long-form text.
- Log: Logs messages to the terminal at using different levels and styling using the charmbracelet/log library.
Website: github.com/charmbracelet/gum
Support:
Developer: Charmbracelet, Inc
License: MIT License
Gum is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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