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Writing-a-TUI-in-bash: How to write a TUI in BASH
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How to write a TUI in BASH
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How to write a TUI in BASH
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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2 sourcesI'm working on a guide that will cover the entire process of creating a terminal user interface in bash. I want to create a central location for the information I've gathered so it may be of benefit to others.
I also hope that people will contribute their own snippets, methods and ideas. It'd be great to find out if there are better ways of implementing the code.
The guide is on GitHub [0] and is a heavy work in progress. Its currently structured in a way I'm not too happy with. I want to change it to a series of 'How to implement x' instead of an ever growing implementation.
Other than the TUI guide I have 4 other major projects which I am working on (neofetch, pywal, fff and the Pure Bash Bible).
[0] https://github.com/dylanaraps/writing-a-tui-in-bash
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