mooz/percol

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3326 stars · 144 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

percol is an interactive filtering tool for UNIX shells that reads lines from stdin, lets the user interactively select/filter them, and outputs the selection to stdout. It is written in Python, highly customizable, and supports Migemo-based matching for fast Japanese input filtering.

Use cases

• interactively filter command output in a shell pipe
• search and select zsh shell history interactively
• interactive pgrep/pkill to pick processes to kill
• select tmux sessions or windows interactively
• fuzzy-select lines from a file in the terminal
• filter Japanese text with Migemo or pinyin matching

When to choose

• you want an interactive grep-style selector embedded in UNIX pipelines
• you need heavy customization of prompts, keymaps, and colors via a Python rc file
• you frequently filter Japanese input and want Migemo/pinyin support

When to avoid

• you want the fastest or most actively maintained fuzzy finder - prefer fzf or peco
• you need a GUI or non-terminal interactive selector
• you require guaranteed long-term support - the project has no formal license file and slow release cadence

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

search-engine cli developer-tools developer-tools cli python interactive-filter fuzzy-finder unix-pipe terminal-ui migemo command-line linux macos

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