ANancientcatz·Apr 16, 2026
If I remember correctly, `gum` also provides a pager feature: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
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A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀
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22 sourcesGum: A tool for glamorous shell scripts
1 points · Open discussionMy favourite library from these folks is gum (https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum). The basic premise is simple - instead of using hardcoded variables or in addition/instead of using CLI flags, call gum and capture the STDOUT to get the selected input value(s). Great for turning a bash script into a TUI, uses these libraries under the hood.
I find the pattern of showing interactive TUI if required options/flags are omitted much nicer than showing an error/help output.
In The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available nowI don't have anything against ZSH or similar shells. I think they are great, but they are not my thing.
Latency is a deal-breaker for me, and this is where autocompletion engines generally introduce surprising user-interactive pauses. I've generally settled with using mksh (or OpenBSD's KSH depending on the environment) with little configuration outside of aliases, variables, and few local functions. I'm not left with this inkling feeling like accidentally running find(1) over an AutoFS file system backed by NFS that needs to authenticate, mount, and then run the operation.
When I need something more sophisticated, I lean on using Go or Elvish and potentially delegate some UI elements out to https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum.
I'd rather keep my shell simpler and delegate out any other complexity to these other programs. Autocomplet
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ion and these other features simply aren’t free.
Gum: A Go-powered tool for writing shell scripts, no Go code required
3 points · Open discussionI just ran across "gum"[1] from charmbracelet which I intend to use! I just want to replace dialog. I came across whiptail, too, but gum seems nicer.
They have a TUI framework, too, among a lot of other related things. Some of their projects are Go libraries, some are a CLI tool, such as gum.
[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
In Fang, the CLI Starter KitI don't know why (other than being a Gen X nerd) but I have a bizarre affinity for nicely-written TUI apps of late! Things like btop++ that respond to mouse clicks and smoothly reflow when the terminal window is resized etc...
Shout-out to Charmbracelet's stuff such as Glow (https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) and Gum (https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum) for rendering markdown nicely in the terminal and for using TUI in your shell scripts
In Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense trackerI'm also using a global justfile (`-g`) [1] to serve as a convenient location to aggregate any convenience functions, as well as call out to any standalone scripts as necessary.
You can also 'convert' all recipes to aliases so you get the best of both worlds, the ability to call with `just -g foo` or `foo`, from anywhere.
The docs example [2] uses a `user` justfile, but the principal is the same for global.
for recipe in `just --justfile ~/.user.justfile --summary`; do
alias $recipe="just --justfile ~/.user.justfile --working-directory . $recipe"
done
Most recently I've started using `fzf` and `bat` to allow interactive selection of recipes with syntax highlighted previews:
_choose:
@just -g --summary | \
tr ' ' '\n' | \
sort -r | \
fzf --multi --preview 'just -g --show {} | bat --color=always -l jus
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t -pp' | \
xargs just -g
Now with a global `alias ji="just -g _choose"` I can interactively choose a recipe if I need a reminder of what I've set up.
This was inspired by the native `--choose` flag which does something similar, but by using `--summary` here, all recipes, including those that take arguments *, are listed, as well as any nested modules.
And because you can use any shebang, you can also write little python scripts to run with `uv`, including those with dependencies [5] declared in the shebang:
# list Cloudflare accounts
accounts:
#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script --with cloudflare --python 3.13
from cloudflare import Cloudflare
client = Cloudflare()
accounts = client.accounts.list()
print(accounts)
…here with inline metadata:
# list Cloudflare accounts
accounts:
#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.13"
# dependencies = [
# "cloudflare",
# ]
# ///
from cloudflare import Cloudflare
client = Cloudflare()
accounts = client.accounts.list()
print(accounts)
[1] https://just.systems/man/en/global-and-user-justfiles.html
[2] https://just.systems/man/en/global-and-user-justfiles.html#r...
[3] https://just.systems/man/en/selecting-recipes-to-run-with-an...
[4] https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum?tab=readme-ov-file#inpu...
[5] https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#running-a-script-w...
* interactively selected recipes that take arguments won't work by directly passing to `xargs` here, but in some cases where I do want that flexibility I just add a condition in the recipe to prompt for input, with `gum input` [4]. Flexibility. This is a belt and braces approach and only used where necessary as the `fzf` preview will have made it clear that a recipe takes arguments.
[positional-arguments]
foo $bar="":
#!/usr/bin/env bash
if [ -z "$bar" ]; then
bar=$(gum input --placeholder "bar")
fi
echo "looking up $bar"
it's a cool helper for shell scripts, do have beautiful interfaces, check it here https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
In Show HN: Scooter – Interactive find and replace in the terminalOmm is built using the charm libraries: https://charm.sh/
Easiest way to do it any language is to shell out to gum: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
In Omm ("on-my-mind") – A keyboard-driven task manager for the command line> (There’s precisely one thing like this I’m aware of terminal emulators adding in recent memory: clickable links, ca. six years ago.)
And they are often disabled by default, as a potential security risk. We don't get to have fun things, do we? (also worth read: CVE-2003-0063, abusing escape seq is unfortunately a valid concern against adding more stuff).
On the other hand, more and more emulators are adding support for various graphic protocols (sixel, iTerm2 format, kitty format).
> I’ve been waiting for one or more terminal emulators to get together and add some ridiculous new escape codes[...]
Well, it's not much, but mintty apparently has some interesting stuff like audio support[0], and codes for font size and font family[1][2].
iTerm2 also has a bunch of custom escape sequences of varying level of usefulness starting from displayin
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g fireworks animation on cursor position to sending system notifications[3] (although sadly I could not get the last one to work for me).
For some semblance of forms, you can check bubbles[4] and gum[5] (binary to easily incorporate the components into shell scripts).
[0]: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/CtrlSeqs#audio-support
[1]: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/CtrlSeqs#font-size
[2]: https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/Tips#alternative-fonts
[3]: https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html
[4]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles
[5]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
The same project has an application called Gum which exposes primitives from their UI framework via a single CLI binary. It's intended to be used from a normal bash script and I've found it really quite pleasant to use.
For example, you could write 'gum choose foo bar baz' to get a nice picker over the three provided options.
Their repo has a ton of examples: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
In Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager> $ glow https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
works too. You can also point it directly at the raw markdown file if you want a different one (for example in a subdirectory on Github)
> $ glow https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/ma...
It's a neat tool
In Gum – A tool for glamorous shell scriptsGum – A tool for glamorous shell scripts
68 points · Open discussion`gum choose --no-limit`
https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
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