jgmro/biblia-terminal

Biblia terminal is a command line Bible reader for the Jerusalem Bible in Portuguese. It compiles down to a single binary with no external dependencies, no internet connection, and no installer, so you can copy the program to any Unix machine and it just works. You can look up a passage directly by typing something like a book abbreviation and chapter and verse, search for a word or phrase across every verse, or ask for a random verse. Common abbreviations for book names are supported, and there is also a favorites feature so you can save and later list the verses you want to keep track of. Beyond the plain command line mode, there is also a full screen terminal interface you get by running the program with no arguments. It shows one verse at a time with a small header, and you move between verses, search, jump to a random verse, or save a favorite using single key presses, similar to programs like less or vim. The whole Bible text, more than 33,500 verses across the Old and New Testaments, is embedded directly inside the compiled binary rather than read from a separate file at run time. Because it behaves like a normal small Unix program, its output can be piped into tools like grep or wc, for example to count how many verses mention a given word. The project can be built from source with gcc on Linux, macOS, or Windows through MSYS2, or you can download a precompiled binary from the releases page and check its SHA256 hash to confirm it was not corrupted. On Windows, the binary is not digitally signed, so Windows Defender may warn about it and require you to explicitly choose to run it anyway. The program's own code is released under the MIT license, but the Jerusalem Bible translation text itself belongs to its publisher and is included for personal use only, not for commercial redistribution.