peco
An interactive command-line filter that narrows piped input as you type and returns the selection.
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1 more ways to get peco
Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install peco
About peco
peco reads lines from standard input, shows them in the terminal and filters the list as you type a query. You then select one or more lines and peco prints them, so it can sit in the middle of a shell pipeline.
Typical uses include picking a file, a process, a Git branch or a line from shell history without typing it in full. It suits people who want a simple interactive selector to combine with other command-line tools.
Strengths
- Works with any piped input
- Filters interactively as you type
- Easy to combine with shell scripts and aliases
Limitations
- Fewer built-in integrations than fzf
- Needs shell configuration for key bindings
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- MIT
- Developer
- The peco contributors
- Platforms
- Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Shell users who want an interactive picker inside pipelines
- Categories
- CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to peco
Compare allSoftware that can replace peco for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
fzf
A fuzzy filter for any list: files, command history, processes, branches, anything you can pipe into it.
fzf filters any piped list like peco but adds shell integration for history and file search, preview windows, Vim plugins and more built-in integrations.
fzy
A fast, simple fuzzy text selector for the terminal with an advanced scoring algorithm.
fzy is a small C fuzzy selector with a documented scoring algorithm aimed at ranking the intended result first, with fewer features and infrequent releases.
Television
Search files and other data through a terminal fuzzy finder.
Television is a terminal fuzzy finder built around configurable channels for different data sources, rather than only filtering whatever is piped into it.
Gum
Drop-in prompts, menus, spinners and formatting for shell scripts, so a bash script can have a decent interface.
Gum includes a fuzzy filter among menus, prompts and spinners for shell scripts, making it broader in scope but an extra dependency that needs a real terminal.
peco as an alternative
Listings that name peco as an alternative.
sig
Search streaming text interactively in your terminal.
peco narrows piped input interactively and returns the selection, with fewer integrations and no stated support for rerunning a source command.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Atuin
Search shell history with command context and optional encrypted synchronization.
zoxide
Learns the directories you actually use, so changing to one takes a few letters instead of a full path.
navi
An interactive command-line cheatsheet tool for browsing and running commands with suggested argument values.
