Origin story
Endless "up, edit, run" cycle when writing complex shell pipelines.
Demo
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Overview
Interactive TUI scratchpad for building shell pipelines
Terminal UI for building shell pipelines
From the maintainer
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Terminal UI for building shell pipelines
Rura is a terminal UI for building shell pipelines. Edit a pipe like grep | sort | uniq, see output update live, inspect any stage, and diff between runs — replacing the usual edit, up-arrow, rerun loop.
First workflow
Pipe some data you need to process into rura and try writing grep/sed/jq commands. Immediate workflow improvement guaranteed;)
Design choice
Persistent command line.Running full pipeline or until current or previous subcommand.Optional live mode that executes pipeline as you type.
Roadmap
Improving visibility of pipeline subcommands effects - diff views. Gathering some feedback about different workflows people have and maybe also incorporating them into rura.
Maintainer install notes
cargobrewAURdebrpm
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Latest Release
v1.13.0
Released: Aug 20, 2026Release Notes
Features
- Added a "quit and save" option to save command to the clipboard when the app exits
Install rura 1.13.0
Install prebuilt binaries via shell script
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/tlipinski/rura/releases/download/v1.13.0/rura-installer.sh | sh
Download rura 1.13.0
| File | Platform | Checksum |
|---|---|---|
| rura-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz | Apple Silicon macOS | checksum |
| rura-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz | Intel macOS | checksum |
| rura-aarch64-pc-windows-msvc.zip | ARM64 Windows | checksum |
| rura-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip | x64 Windows | checksum |
| rura-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz | ARM64 Linux | checksum |
| rura-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz | x64 Linux | checksum |
| rura-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz | x64 MUSL Linux | checksum |
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