A full-screen file selector. Imagine a menu to ls -l : fselect does just this.

$ fselect [-hV] [-n MAX_AMOUNT] [-f viewflags] [-y] [FILES] ...

-h prompts usage

-V version

-y instead of the menu interface, asks in stdout if you wish to select a file at a time

-c use curses/ncurses selection mode (default)

-n specify maximum amount of selections

File parameters are those you'd pass to ls, mostly expanded by the shell.

And it's paired to the posix shell functions where fselect gives the best:

$ play $(fselect ~/music/*)

Supposing you have audio files in the music folder, you can select the files you prefer there in order to play them with the sox tool.

• Arrow keys (Up/Down)/vi keys (K/J) : Moving up and down in the list of files

• Space/Ins : Marking files to have them printed in standard output exiting fselect

• Enter/Esc : exits fselect

• . (Dot) : Marks the file where the cursor is and exits fselect

Try rename to Makefile one of Makefile.gnu and Makefile.bsd, then launch make in your terminal.

As far as i know fselect is a work of Peter Pentchev. His version in his site is the 1.0, hasn't got the . key and shouldn't compile in GNU systems without some minor tweakings.

You can make a lot of hacks with fselect, I've to learn C anew so if someone would like to point me out where do I have to tweak to fix the warnings I'll thank him/her.

This program has potential, I seek to integrate it with dircolors and to make some kind of hacked up file manager with it and a shell scripts. Submit your patches.

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