Percol Alternatives

Percol is described as 'Interactive grep tool in your terminal, commonly used with | (pipe concept on UNIX)' and is a terminal emulator in the os & utilities category. There are eight alternatives to Percol for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD and Rust apps. The best Percol alternative is fzf, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Percol are Ultimate Plumber, icepick, hf and Peco.

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Percol is an interactive grep tool in your terminal, commonly used with | (pipe concept on UNIX).

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Percol alternatives page was last updated Jan 2, 2025
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  1. fzf icon

    fzf

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    A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go.

    23 fzf alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • KR flagSouth Korea

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Vim
    fzf screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Fuzzy Finder
    2.  Terminal-based
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Command line interface

    fzf VS Percol

     

    • fzf is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Percol.

    • fzf is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Percol.

    • fzf is Free and Open SourcePercol is also Free and Open Source
    • fzf is LightweightPercol is not according to our users
  2. Ultimate Plumber icon

    Ultimate Plumber

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    Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes interactively with instant live preview. It facilitates building complex pipelines by letting you interactively and incrementally explore text data as you type.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Ultimate Plumber screenshot 1

    Ultimate Plumber VS Percol

     

  4. icepick

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    A fuzzy text selector for files and anything else you need to select. Use it from vim, from the command line, or anywhere you can run a shell command. Reimplementation of selecta in Rust.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    icepick Features

    1.  Fuzzy Finder

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  5. hf

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    Fuzzy file finder for the command line.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    hf Features

    1.  Fuzzy Finder

    hf VS Percol

     
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    Peco

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    Simple and efficient interactive filtering tool for your shell. Pipe your output to it and filter interactively!

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    you can page through your results, and you can keep changing the query

    Peco Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Filtering

    Peco VS Percol

     

  7. pmenu

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    Terminal fuzzy finder/dmenu-replacement.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD

    pmenu Features

    1.  Fuzzy Finder

    pmenu VS Percol

     
  9. Television icon

    Television

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    Blazing fast general purpose fuzzy finder TUI.

    22 Television alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Rust
    Television screenshot 1

    Television Features

    1.  Command line interface
    2.  Syntax Highlighting
    3.  Ad-free
    4.  Tui
    5.  Fuzzy Finder

    Television VS Percol

     
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    Pipecut

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    Pipecut is a pipeline development tool that lets you see data as you type shell commands.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Pipecut VS Percol

     
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