pick(1) reads a list of choices from stdin and outputs the selected choice to stdout. Therefore it is easily used both in pipelines and subshells:

# Select a file in the current directory to open using xdg-open(1):
$ find . -type f | pick | xargs xdg-open
# Select a command from the history to execute:
$ eval $(fc -ln 1 | pick)

pick(1) can also be used from within Vim, see the pick.vim plugin.

Available in 6c37/crux-ports.

A package for Pick is available As of Debian 9 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

apt-get install pick

Package is available from the official repo.

emerge pick

The RPM builds are not yet in the official repositories, but you can install a community-built RPM if you are running Fedora 33 on x86_64:

wget https://github.com/FreedomBen/pick-rpm/releases/download/v4.0.0/pick-4.0.0-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm
sudo dnf install pick-4.0.0-1.fc33.x86_64.rpm

If you are running RHEL, CentOS, Fedora 31/32, or if you are on ARM/aarch64 architecture, you can find appropriate RPMs on the RPM project releases page.

For more information or to contribute to the RPM build, see the RPM project page.

Package is available from the official repo.

xbps-install pick

brew install pick

sudo port install pick

cd /usr/ports/sysutils/pick
make install clean

pkg install pick

pkg_add pick

pkg_add pick

./configure
make install

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