percol to pick lines
16-05-23
%Deep in a emac tutorial I discovered this hidden gem.
"percol adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX."
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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