show-struct VS chafa

Compare show-struct vs chafa and see what are their differences.

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show-struct chafa
2 31
124 2,612
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0.0 9.0
8 months ago 6 days ago
Python C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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show-struct

Posts with mentions or reviews of show-struct. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-14.
  • Tell ONE terminal app you use everyday but no one seems know about the app
    30 projects | /r/commandline | 14 Feb 2022
    Of many JSON linters, formatters, I have not see one that provides a quick, human readable map/structure of your JSON data except show-struct .
  • Way to organize / catalogue / consolidate 40 drives logically
    2 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 15 Jun 2021
    Some hint on flattening JSON tree here: https://til.simonwillison.net/jq/flatten-nested-json-objects-jq Of course, you could use the hierarchical format if you are comfortable navigating it in jq. This is a tool to dump the structure of json files as seen by jq. Use python not python3 to run. https://github.com/ilyash/show-struct tree and cat-cli structure is similar but uses different names for some of the fields. cat-cli database includes an md5 hash, tree's does not.

chafa

Posts with mentions or reviews of chafa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing show-struct and chafa you can also consider the following projects:

csv.vim - A Filetype plugin for csv files

imgcat - It's like cat, but for images.

tdrop - A Glorified WM-Independent Dropdown Creator

mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer

sydent - Sydent: Reference Matrix Identity Server

vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

mani - :robot: CLI tool to help you manage repositories

libsixel - A SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel (https://github.com/saitoha/sixel).

pipe-viewer - A lightweight YouTube client for Linux, without requiring an API key.

zellij - A terminal workspace with batteries included