Gum

Drop-in prompts, menus, spinners and formatting for shell scripts, so a bash script can have a decent interface.

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About Gum

Gum is a set of small commands that each provide one piece of interface: `gum choose` for a menu, `gum confirm` for a yes or no, `gum input` for a prompt, `gum file` for a file picker, `gum filter` for fuzzy selection, `gum spin` for a spinner around a long task, and `gum format` for styled output.

Each prints to stdout, so you capture the result in a variable and carry on with ordinary shell scripting. The effect is that a dotfile alias or a deployment script can have a genuinely usable interface without writing any Go, which is what the Bubble Tea library underneath it would otherwise require.

Strengths

  • Each command does one interface job and prints to stdout, so it composes with normal shell scripting
  • Menus, confirmations, file pickers, fuzzy filters, spinners and styled text
  • No Go code needed to get the look of a Bubble Tea application
  • Packages for Debian, RPM and Alpine, binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows and the BSDs

Limitations

  • Adds an external dependency to any script that uses it
  • Interactive commands need a real terminal, so they break in non-interactive CI
  • Styling options are extensive enough to become their own time sink
  • Not a full TUI framework; for that you need Bubble Tea itself

Details

Pricing
FreeFree and open source under the MIT licence.
License
MIT
Developer
Charmbracelet
Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
How it runs
Downloadable app
Account
Not required
Works offline
Yes
Best suited for
Adding menus and prompts to shell scripts without writing a program
Categories
CLI tools
Last verified
Added
Provenance
Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Dev Tools); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.

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