percol vs canything

percol

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

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canything

CUIでEmacs anythingを使うコマンド (by keiji0)

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percol		canything
	Project
2	Mentions	1
3,280	Stars	33
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	over 11 years ago
Python	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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

canything

Posts with mentions or reviews of canything. 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

canything by @keiji0 - A seminal work in interactive grep tools.

What are some alternatives?

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

pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting

zaw - zsh anything.el-like widget.

autopexpect - autoexpect for pexpect

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

howdoi - instant coding answers via the command line

peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool [Moved to: https://github.com/peco/peco]

thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

grex - A command-line tool and Rust library with Python bindings for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases

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

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

mycli - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder