pick is a command line tool that lets you select parts of the input before printing to the standard output. It's useful to use in the middle of a piped sequence of commands.

pick parses the input trying to understand its table structure and presents an interactive UI to select which parts of the input you want. It has 2 output modes: list and table.

• List mode: outputs a list divided by '\n', handy for selecting sublists before executing commands on some input.
• Table mode: lets you select parts of the table and constructs the final subtable, useful for filtering huge tables that some commands output.

It's been tested in OSX and Debian, pull requests for other platforms are welcome :)

• brew tap bernardorufino/pick
• brew install pick

• cd <install-dir>
• git clone -b release --depth 1 https://github.com/bernardorufino/pick.git .
• ln -s $(pwd)/pick.sh /usr/local/bin/pick # or other directory present in the $PATH variable

Give it a try:

• ls -l | pick # print files and copy to clipboard
• ls | pick | xargs rm # select files in current directory before removing

• Can't see full output preview when it overflows