gum

A command-line tool for adding attractive interactivity to shell scripts.

Selects one or more values from a given list of options. Unlike filter, choose does not allow the user to search through the list.

Prompts for confirmation, returning 0 on an affirmative answer and 1 on a negative one. This leads to the general form gum confirm && YES_CMD || NO_CMD.

gum confirm && ls || echo "never mind"

Navigates through a given path to select and output a filename.

Chooses one or more values from a newline-separated list.

Renders the input as a Go template.

Requests a single line of input, printing the output.

Joins text horizontally or vertically.

Pages through data passed to stdin.

Displays a spinner for the duration of a command. Available spinners include:

• line
• dot (default)
• minidot
• jump
• pulse
• points
• globe
• moon
• monkey
• meter
• hamburger

Applies text styling to its input.

Renders a table of data. By default, it expects the data to be in CSV format.

Multi-line text input with complete cursor-based editing.

• GitHub page
• Hackaday article