Kick ass and chew gum

Gum by charm_ is a set of utilities for making “glamorous” shell scripts.

Install

Arch Linux

pacman -Sy gum

Other Linux

If you can’t find it in your distributions package manager, then try installing it with Homebrew.

brew install gum

Works on macOS too.

Gum contains utilities for different tasks. They are mostly centered around interactivity in CLI.

A pager allows you to scroll around in a large amount of text.

lshw | gum pager

It can be used as an alternative to more or less commands.

Choose from a menu of options (alternative to select).

echo "What do you want to do?"
gum choose "backup" "update" "install" "reset" "test"

You can prompt for input.

echo "Create admin user"
gum input --placeholder "username"

You can also use it to show a confirmation dialog.

gum confirm "Confirm changes?"

Let user pick a file.

gum file ~

Gum can also server other utility functions. Check out the list here.