Gum – tool for glamorous shell scripts

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 --limit or --no-limit flag, 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
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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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