snippets/old_snippets/percol-to-pick-lines.en.md

title	seo_description	date	draft	snippet_types
percol to pick lines	How to use percol to pick lines mid pipe	2023-05-16T15:37:29+02:00	false	percol

Deep in a emac tutorial I discovered this hidden gem.

"percol adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX."

project github

You can simply place it in the middle of a pipe and pick the options you want.

Example:

$ BUCKET="s3://cool-bucket" aws s3 ls $BUCKET | awk '{print $4}' | percol |sed "s;^;${BUCKET}/;" | xargs aws s3 rm
delete: ...

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