chezmoi
Focus: dotfiles and config management. Shares command line and open source with Gum. Rated 4.7 (Gum: 4.6).
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Desktop App
Gum
A toolkit for adding friendly prompts and menus to shell scripts.
Rating
4.6 / 5
Pricing
Free
Difficulty
Intermediate
Works on
macOS, Windows, Linux
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What is Gum?
Gum, from Charm, is a free, open-source command-line toolkit that adds polished building blocks to shell scripts, such as text inputs, pickers, confirmations, spinners and filters. You drop a single command into a script and get an interactive prompt, so small personal automations become easy to use without writing a full app.
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Pros: what Gum does well
- Interactive prompts with one command
- Works in any shell script
- Free and open source
Cons: where it falls short
- Only useful if you write scripts
- Command line only
Who Gum is for
Developers who build their own small terminal automations.
Who can skip it
People who never write shell scripts.
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