Rofi is a fuzzy searcher for linux (select one entry from a set of entries quickly by typing a substring). fzf is a similar tool for the shell.

This is useful for quickly producing hacky GUI interfaces.

Is there a similar way to easily select one of several strings with a gui from the command-line in mac?

Example of what rofi is useful for

Searching and playing audio files from a known location.

cd music
ls | rofi | xargs vlc 

You might bind this to a key. The key point is that you have complete programmatic over control and the input and how the output is used.k

Solution 1:

There is the choose app and it does exactly what you ask for. It takes stdin, shows GUI selector and returns selected item to stdout.

You can install it using brew install choose-gui