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Television

television

A very fast, portable and hackable fuzzy finder for the terminal.

Runs as tv|macOS, Linux, Windows|alexpasmantier.github.io
Open form in Otty otty.toml

Command form

ai-draft · 2 tasks · 13 fields

Open television on a channel or an ad-hoc source command, optionally with a preview command. UI layout, keybinding and template options are left out.

Opens the form; the finished command lands at your prompt, unrun
Run in Otty
otty gui television
Fuzzy findExample values, fixed in this page — nothing here reaches a terminal
Basic
Channel*
string
Working directory
directory
Initial query
string
TasksEach one presets the form for one job
Browse a channel
channelpathinput
Ad-hoc source with preview
source_commandpreview_commandpath
ParametersOnly these flags are editable in the form
Channel
Leave empty with a source command for an ad-hoc channel. Run tv list-channels to see channels.
string · positional 0
filestextgit-repos
Working directory
path · positional 1
Source command
Overrides the channel's command, or defines an ad-hoc channel when no channel is given.
string
--source-command-s
Preview command
Use {} for the selected entry, e.g. cat {}.
string
--preview-command-p
Initial query
string
--input-i
Substring matching
boolean
--exact
Auto-select a single match
boolean
--select-1
Keep source order
boolean
--no-sort
Parse ANSI colors
boolean
--ansi
No preview panel
boolean
--no-preview
Layout
enum
--layoutlandscapeportrait
Inline interface
boolean
--inline
Height (lines)
integer
--height
SourcesEvery flag above is checked against these
manpage
[CHANNEL] Which channel shall we watch? [PATH] The working directory to start the application in. -s, --source-command <STRING> Source command to use for the current channel. --ansi Whether tv should extract and parse ANSI style codes from the source command output. --no-sort Disable automatic sorting of entries based on match quality. -p, --preview-com…
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Before it fills your prompt, Otty checks the installed tv against its version. A form that does not match your version is not offered.