play is a TUI playground for your favorite programs, such as grep, sed and awk.
It uses the excellent tview library for the UI.
$ git clone https://github.com/paololazzari/play
$ cd play
$ go build -o /usr/local/bin/./play <program>N.B. The program must be installed on your machine.
The input is evaluated immediately as you type without any validation.
If you want to use play in read-only mode, thus avoding any file changes (such as those that would result if, for instance, sed -i was used), then you can use a docker container:
$ docker run --rm -it -v "$(pwd)":/play:ro plazzari/play:latest <program>To exit the application, use Ctrl+C.
To exit the application printing the input expression to stdout, use Ctrl+S.
| Component | Key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Any | Ctrl+C |
Exit application |
| Any | Ctrl+S |
Exit application and print input expression to stdout |
| Command Options | Tab |
Move focus to positional arguments |
| Command Options | Shift+Tab |
Move focus to file picker |
| Command Options | Enter |
Move focus to output |
| Positional Arguments | Tab |
Move focus to file picker |
| Positional Arguments | Shift+Tab |
Move focus to command options |
| Positional Arguments | Enter |
Move focus to output |
| Positional Arguments | Ctrl+O |
Open wide editor |
| Wide Editor | Esc |
Close wide editor |
| Wide Editor | Ctrl+O |
Close wide editor |
| Wide Editor | Ctrl+Enter |
Enter newline |
| Wide Editor | Enter |
Move focus to output |
| File picker | Tab |
Move focus to command options |
| File picker | Shift+Tab |
Move focus to positional arguments options |
| File picker | Ctrl+O |
Open selected file/Close selected file |
| Output | Esc |
Move focus to previous component |
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