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PICK(1) 		     General Commands Manual			 PICK(1)

NAME
     pick -- fuzzy select anything

SYNOPSIS
     pick [-dKoSXx] [-q query]

DESCRIPTION
     The  pick	utility  allows  users	to select from a set of choices using an
     curses(3) interface with fuzzy search functionality.

     The choices are read from stdin, and the selected choice written to stdout.

     The options are as follows:

     -d        Read and display descriptions.  Input lines will  be  split  into
	       two parts by the last occurrence of IFS.  Both parts will be dis-
	       played but only the first part will be used when searching.

     -K        Disable	toggling  of  keypad transmit mode.  Useful when running
	       pick from within another interactive program  which  already  has
	       set the correct transmit mode.

     -o        Output description of selected choice on exit.

     -q query  Supply an initial search query.

     -S        Disable sorting.  Only filter the choices instead of additionally
	       sorting by score.  This option can be toggled from within the in-
	       terface, see "COMMANDS".

     -x        Enable the use of the alternate screen terminal feature.  This is
	       the default.

     -X        Disable the use of the alternate screen terminal feature.

COMMANDS
     Ctrl-C
	   Exit  with a erroneous status without outputting the selected choice.
	   While this command often being defined as Ctrl-C it is determined  by
	   the VINTR control character, see termios(4).

     Ctrl-L
	   Redraw interface with respect to the current size of the terminal.

     Ctrl-O
	   Toggle sorting.

     Up/Down | Ctrl-P/Ctrl-N
	   Select between choices matching the current search query.

     Page-Down/Page-Up | Ctrl-V/Alt-V | Alt-Space
	   Move  the  selection  to the choice located one page down/up from the
	   currently selected choice.

     Home/End | Alt-</Alt->
	   Move the selection to the  first/last  choice  matching  the  current
	   search query.

     Enter
	   Output the currently selected choice and exit.

     Alt-Enter
	   Output the current input query and exit.

     Left/Right | Ctrl-B/Ctrl-F
	   Move the cursor left and right in the search query input field.

     Ctrl-A
	   Move  the cursor to the beginning of the line in the search query in-
	   put field.

     Ctrl-E
	   Move the cursor to the end of the line  in  the  search  query  input
	   field.

     Backspace | Ctrl-H
	   Delete  one	character  to the left of the cursor in the search query
	   input field.

     Delete | Ctrl-D
	   Delete the character under the  cursor  in  the  search  query  input
	   field.

     Ctrl-W | Alt-Backspace
	   Delete the word to the left of the cursor.  A word is recognized as a
	   sequence  of  characters  for  which either isalnum(3) is true or the
	   character is an underscore.

     Ctrl-U
	   Delete to the beginning of the line in the search query input field.

     Ctrl-K
	   Delete to the end of the line in the search query input field.

     Printable characters
	   Added to the search query and will refine the current search.

ENVIRONMENT
     The following environment variables will affect the execution of pick:

     IFS  Determines the separator used between choices and descriptions.

ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS
     SIGWINCH  The screen is resized.

EXAMPLES
     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)

DIAGNOSTICS
     The pick utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

HISTORY
     The first version of pick was released on August 18, 2014.  Development was
     sponsored by thoughtbot from the start of the project until September 2016.

AUTHORS
     Calle Erlandsson <calle@calleerlandsson.com>
     Anton Lindqvist <anton@basename.se>

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	 August 17, 2014			 PICK(1)

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