Update example in manual

[mptre]

I've always been bothered by the fact that I can't run one of the
examples in the manual without installing the missing utilities fltr
and tac:

$ apropos -l . | fltr | pick -do | tac | xargs man

Instead, I think we can come up with something as useful but portable.

Thoughts and ideas would be appreciated.

[ghost]

How about:

apropos . | sed 's/ -/\t-/' | IFS=$'\t' pick -d | awk '{print $2 " " $1}' | tr -d '()' | xargs man

for the above example? (The -l switch to apropos seems not to be portable ...)

[mptre]

Cool. But, I was hoping for something less complex but equally useful.
An example not related to finding manuals would be fine too.

[ghost]

eval "$(fc -ln 1 | pick)" # Select a line in the command history to execute

... works with bash (version 3 & 4, not 2) and zsh (bash prints some superfluous leading spaces, but I want to avoid the use of cut or sed) ... also in README.md it should be:

cd "$(find . -type d | pick)"

... to deal with spaces in directory names ...

[mptre]

eval "$(fc -ln 1 | pick)" # Select a line in the command history to execute

Very nice! This should be sufficient:

$ $(fc -ln | pick)

cd "$(find . -type d | pick)"

... to deal with spaces in directory names ...

Correct, care to draft a PR?

[mptre]

Does commit e50564b look good?

[ghost]

eval is evil, but by omitting the 1 after -ln only the last 16 entries of the history will show up ...
I will craft a PR for README.md ...

[mptre]

eval is evil, but by omitting the 1 after -ln only the last 16 entries of the history will show up

Didn't know, fixed!

[ghost]

eval is evil

... but aliases will not be expanded without eval and result in a command not found-message ...
now I remember the reason for using the evil eval ... ;-)

[mptre]

Thanks, fixed in commmit 031817f.

[ghost]

My bad: quoting the command after eval is not really necessary ...

[mptre]

Right, thanks. Fixed in commit ae84349.