ncurses-selection

An ncurses menu for selecting a subset of given lines.

Reads newline-separated choices from standard input, allows the user to choose a subset of them, and writes what's selected to standard output.

Keys

• arrow keys — move the cursor
• Space — (un)select current choice
• Return or q — accept the selection and quit

Example usage

Select files from ~ and delete them

ls -1d ~/* | ./sel | xargs -d$'\n' rm