percol vs zaw

percol

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

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zaw

zsh anything.el-like widget. (by zsh-users)

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percol		zaw
	Project
2	Mentions	2
3,280	Stars	562
-	Growth	1.1%
0.0	Activity	0.0
4 months ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Python	Language	Shell
MIT License	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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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

zaw

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

Zaw: Zsh Anything.el-Like Widget
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2023
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

zaw by @nakamuray - A zsh-friendly interactive grep tool.

What are some alternatives?

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

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autopexpect - autoexpect for pexpect

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

howdoi - instant coding answers via the command line

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

thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

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

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

canything - CUIでEmacs anythingを使うコマンド

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

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