X-Git-Url: https://www.fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=selector.1;h=f7dae0540c5853d4013ab6dbc5dde3cdfa94ff0d;hb=6ae2a42e283caf6e5388b9329c19d564de63fe49;hp=ea0579e1f0f7c401699ab7857a27a68906236083;hpb=2ec1bb36d878d711181defd77a3cd0565bdf55dc;p=selector.git diff --git a/selector.1 b/selector.1 index ea0579e..f7dae05 100644 --- a/selector.1 +++ b/selector.1 @@ -28,9 +28,7 @@ and execute it as a standard command. Selector is also a handy tool to test regexps, or to display menus with many possible choices. For the latter, the -x option allows to -specify a label delimiter: the part of each line before that character -will appear during the selection, but only the part after that -character will be returned. +show different strings than the ones returned. Note that because this is an interactive command, the standard input can not be used as one of the input files. @@ -169,11 +167,11 @@ selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(find . -type d | awk \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\ncd \(dq$0 .EE .RE -To select a line in a long text and returns the line number +To select a line in a long text and write the line number in /tmp/nb .RS .EX -selector -v -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq) +selector -o /tmp/nb -x \(dq\\n\(dq <(awk < something.txt \(aq{ print $0\(dq\\n\(dqNR }\(aq) .EE .RE