TailScaleTUI

A simple Text User Interface (TUI) for managing your Tailscale connection using Bash and Gum.

Control Tailscale status, enable/disable, set exit nodes, and check your public IP address from a convenient terminal interface.

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Features

• View Tailscale status (online/offline peers, active exit node).
• Search within the status list.
• Enable your Tailscale connection (tailscale up).
• Disable your Tailscale connection (tailscale down).
• Restart Tailscale (tailscale down && tailscale up).
• Select and set an available Exit Node.
• Clear the currently set Exit Node.
• Check your current public IP address (using ipinfo.io).

Dependencies

This script relies on the following command-line tools:

• tailscale: The Tailscale CLI tool itself.
• gum: A tool for making glamorous shell scripts (used for interactive prompts, spinners, etc.).
• jq (Optional): Required for pretty-printing JSON output when checking your public IP. The script will work without it, but the IP info display will be plain text.
• Standard utilities: curl, grep, sed, awk, tput, fold. These are typically pre-installed on most Linux distributions.

Installation

1. Clone the Repository:

   git clone https://github.com/aptdnfapt/tailscaletui.git
   cd tailscaletui

2. Make the script executable:

   chmod +x tailscale.tui

   (Note: The script file is assumed to be named tailscale.tui based on common practice and repository structure, even if the project name is "TAILSCALE TUI")

3. Install Dependencies:

   Install tailscale first, then gum and jq. The other dependencies are usually standard.

   For Fedora:

   sudo dnf install tailscale gum jq

   For Arch Linux:

   sudo pacman -S tailscale gum jq

   For Ubuntu / Debian: First, install Tailscale using their recommended script:

   curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh

   Then, install Gum and Jq:

   sudo apt update
   sudo apt install gum jq

How to Run

Navigate to the directory where you cloned the script and run:

sudo tailscale set --operator=$USER
mv ./tailscale.tui ~/.local/bin/
tailscale.tui