/play

A TUI playground to experiment with your favorite programs, such as grep, sed, awk, jq and yq

Primary LanguageGoApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

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play is a TUI playground for your favorite programs, such as grep, sed and awk.

play

Demo

It uses the excellent tview library for the UI.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/paololazzari/play
$ cd play
$ go build -o /usr/local/bin/

Usage

./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.

Key bindings

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

Credits

The lovely gopher was created with gopherkon.