manop
Manop is a simple Bash script that displays a command description and options from the Man page or help on macOS/Linux. (by shinokada)
smenu
smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool for interactive or scripting use. (by p-gen)
| manop | smenu | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 37 | |
| 3 | 2,335 | |
| - | - | |
| 4.1 | 7.9 | |
| about 2 months ago | 26 days ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| MIT License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
manop
Posts with mentions or reviews of manop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-17.
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What tools / utilities have you written that you use regularly?
Manop to check man pages and options.
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Save Time Using Manop to Print Only Selected Content From the Man Page using Manop
Please see this for Linux installation.
smenu
Posts with mentions or reviews of smenu.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-04.
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Lineselect 0.1.6
You can also use smenu (https://github.com/p-gen/smenu) to make these and many other selections.
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smenu clean window effect
Here are the relevant bits of the source (in [smenu.c](https://github.com/p-gen/smenu/blob/master/smenu.c):
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So you've installed `fzf`. Now what?
Here are the bindings for smenu-history, I found somewhere at the site:
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I created a full POSIX sh menu.
I suggest a name change, so your smenu, isn't confused with this smenu, which is a totally different entity, can present the menus in columns, lines and tabular fashion, has hotkey support, and so much more, I don't know if it is POSIX compliant, but it can also be used with sh, and just not bash.
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Recommendations for CLI / terminal utilities for dialog or confirmation prompts?
smenu for menu and dialogs
- smenu started as a lightweight and flexible terminal menu generator, but quickly evolved into a powerful and versatile CLI selection tool/filter for interactive or scripting use.
- smenu v1.2.0 is released.
- smenu v1.2.0 is available with improvements in the multiple selections feature.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing manop and smenu you can also consider the following projects:
manpdf - Read your Man pages in PDF format. Even online!
RAGENativeUI
kks - Handy Kakoune companion.
dotfiles - My personal dotfiles
notes - notes on the tools in my Unix/Linux toolbox, dotfiles, etc
command_help - :information_source: Extract help text from builtin commands and man pages
cleanit - Cleanit cleanup your ~/Downloads and ~/.Trash directory, and set the cleanup schedule on your MacOS.
dark-toggle - A small POSIX compliant shell script that toggles between the dark and light variants of a GTK theme.
hx - Hex editor for the terminal using plain C99 + POSIX libs.
tawk - Like awk, but using tcl as the scripting language.
sn - Simple Notes using fzf