peco vs percol

peco

Simplistic interactive filtering tool [Moved to: https://github.com/peco/peco] (by lestrrat)

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percol

adds flavor of interactive filtering to the traditional pipe concept of UNIX shell (by mooz)

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peco		percol
	Project
1	Mentions	2
6,216	Stars	3,280
-	Growth	-
4.0	Activity	0.0
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Go	Language	Python
MIT License	License	MIT License

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peco

Posts with mentions or reviews of peco. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-25.

is there anything like regex101 or regexr to provide immediate feedback on results of text manipulation via the terminal? for learning
9 projects | /r/commandline | 25 Feb 2021

peco by @lestrrat - An interactive grep tool written in Go language.

percol

Posts with mentions or reviews of percol. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.

Show HN: LineSelect, shell utility to interactively select lines in a pipeline
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023

Some other options:
1. Piping into `fzf -m` (use tab to toggle selections and built-in search to filter options).
2. Percol https://github.com/mooz/percol (also has filtering, use ctrl-space to toggle selection).
is there anything like regex101 or regexr to provide immediate feedback on results of text manipulation via the terminal? for learning
9 projects | /r/commandline | 25 Feb 2021

percol last release 2015, activity 2019

What are some alternatives?

When comparing peco and percol you can also consider the following projects:

zaw - zsh anything.el-like widget.

pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

RegExr - RegExr is a HTML/JS based tool for creating, testing, and learning about Regular Expressions.

autopexpect - autoexpect for pexpect

canything - CUIでEmacs anythingを使うコマンド

howdoi - instant coding answers via the command line

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

jid - json incremental digger

cookiecutter - A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.

ariadne - Store a better zsh history and search via interactive grep

try - Dead simple CLI tool to try Python packages - It's never been easier! :package: