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A tool for glamorous shell scripts 🎀

22 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 6 stories, 16 comments · first 2022-07-28 · latest 2026-04-16

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  1. If I remember correctly, `gum` also provides a pager feature: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
    comment by ancientcatz · 2026-04-16 · in I made a terminal pager
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    Gum: A tool for glamorous shell scripts
    story by thunderbong · 2026-03-06 · 1 comment
  3. My favourite library from these folks is gum ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum ). The basic premise is simple - instead of using hardcoded variables or in addition/instead of using CLI flags, call gum and capture the STDOUT to get the…
  4. …more sophisticated, I lean on using Go or Elvish and potentially delegate some UI elements out to https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum . I'd rather keep my shell simpler and delegate out any other complexity to these other programs.…
    comment by matttproud · 2025-07-21 · in Speeding up my ZSH shell
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    Gum: A Go-powered tool for writing shell scripts, no Go code required
    story by bundie · 2025-07-19 · 0 comments
  6. …related things. Some of their projects are Go libraries, some are a CLI tool, such as gum. [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
    comment by johnisgood · 2025-06-19 · in Fang, the CLI Starter Kit
  7. …Shout-out to Charmbracelet's stuff such as Glow ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow ) and Gum ( https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum ) for rendering markdown nicely in the terminal and for using TUI in your shell scripts
    comment by pmarreck · 2025-01-27 · in Show HN: Bagels – TUI expense tracker
  8. …[3] https://just.systems/man/en/selecting-recipes-to-run-with-an... [4] https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum?tab=readme-ov-file#inpu... [5] https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#running-a-script-w... * interactively selected r
    comment by 25thhour · 2024-12-07 · in Just: Just a Command Runner
  9. it's a cool helper for shell scripts, do have beautiful interfaces, check it here https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
  10. …the charm libraries: https://charm.sh/ Easiest way to do it any language is to shell out to gum: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
  11. …https://iterm2.com/documentation-escape-codes.html [4]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles [5]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
    comment by mkotowski · 2024-05-29 · in TTE: Terminal Text Effects
  12. …bar baz' to get a nice picker over the three provided options. Their repo has a ton of examples: https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
  13. > $ glow https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum works too. You can also point it directly at the raw markdown file if you want a different one (for example in a subdirectory on Github) > $ glow https://raw.githubusercontent.com/charmbracelet/…
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    Gum – A tool for glamorous shell scripts
    story by sathishmanohar · 2024-03-02 · 4 comments
  15. `gum choose --no-limit` https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
  16. …- terminal GIF demos - https://github.com/charmbracelet/log - minimal and colorful go logs - https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum - leverage charm's bubbles to write useful TUI shell scripts in any language
    comment by tester457 · 2023-05-23 · in How to start a Go project in 2023
  17. is it this? https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum If so, you just introduced me to an incredible looking project ahah.
  18. …to be read: A [ncurses or gum] workflow. Gum being an alternative method of making a Bash UI. https://github.com/charmbracelet/gum
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  21. …on any platform/arch that has go - no need for root to install an outdated distro specific package go run github.com/charmbracelet/gum@latest
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    Show HN: Gum, a tool for glamorous shell scripts
    story by maaslalani · 2022-07-28 · 9 comments