facebook/PathPicker
PathPicker
PathPicker is a command line file selector and interactive shell file picker that serves as a bridge between terminal output and external tools. It converts text output from shell commands into a visual list, allowing users to identify and isolate specific file paths for further action.
The utility parses text streams from tools such as git or grep to identify file paths, which users can then filter and select via an interactive interface. These selected paths are injected into configurable command templates or passed as arguments to external processes, such as text editors or custom shell scripts.
The tool covers shell output processing, interactive file selection, and command line workflow automation.
Features
- File Selection Pickers - Provides an interactive file picker that parses piped shell output to select paths for external commands.
- Interactive Shell File Pickers - Acts as a bridge between terminal output and text editors by allowing interactive picking of files before execution.
- Path-Based Selection Filters - Provides a visual interface to filter and isolate specific file paths from large lists before further action.
- Pattern-Based Extraction - Uses text matching and predefined patterns to isolate valid file system paths from unstructured shell output.
- Command Output Parsers - Parses text streams from tools like git or grep to isolate file paths for further processing.
- Command Automation - Automates developer tasks by passing filtered sets of file paths as arguments to custom shell commands.
- Standard Input Stream Processing - Processes lists of filenames provided via standard input for interactive selection.
- Interactive Output Pickers - Transforms command-line tool output into a selectable interactive list of files.
- Text & Output Processing - Converts raw text output from shell commands into a selectable list of files.
- Interactive Selection Interfaces - Provides a searchable terminal interface that allows users to interactively filter and select file paths.
- Terminal-to-Editor Bridges - Bridges the gap between terminal search results and text editors by visually selecting which files to open.
- Editor File Openers - Launches a preferred text editor to open specific files selected from a parsed input list.
- Path-Injection Templates - Injects selected file paths into configurable command templates for automated batch processing.
- Developer Utilities - Serves as a productivity helper for filtering project files and passing them to shell commands or editors.
- Path-Based Command Execution - Executes shell commands by passing selected file paths as arguments or through token injection.
- Command Argument Templates - Injects selected file paths into configurable string tokens to generate final shell command arguments.
- Stream-to-List Mappings - Maps parsed text streams directly to a selectable list for real-time user interaction.
- Selection State Management - Maintains a toggleable selection set of filtered items within the visual terminal interface.
- Interactive List Filtering - Allows users to identify specific files by filtering a list of parsed paths via a visual interface.
- File Management - After parsing the output from a command, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in.
- Shells and Command Line - Utility for interactively selecting file paths from command output.
- Terminal Productivity - Select files from command output for further processing.
- CLI Utilities - Selects files from bash output.
