choose

Fuzzy matcher for OS X that uses both std{in,out} and a native GUI

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• Gets list of items from stdin.
• Fuzzy-searches as you type.
• Sends result to stdout.
• Run choose -h for more info.
• example vim integration
• example emacs integration

Install

For the latest release, go to the releases section and download the binary.

Homebrew installation

Keep in mind that we do not maintain the homebrew formula here! So check the version you have via choose -v and compare it to the latest version in the releases section .

brew install choose-gui

Build and Install Documentation

From root of repository, run:

make docs
make install-docs

You can then issue man choose to read the manual.

Note that this requires pandoc to be installed on your system to build the manual page.

Usage

List the content from current directory

ls | choose

Open apps from the applications directories

ls /Applications/ /Applications/Utilities/ /System/Applications/ /System/Applications/Utilities/ | \
    grep '\.app$' | \
    sed 's/\.app$//g' | \
    choose | \
    xargs -I {} open -a "{}.app"

License

See MIT LICENSE.