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# Enable Multi-Select Of Results With fzf
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You can pipe the output of any command to
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[`fzf`](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) and it will display it line-by-line in
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a list that you can then fuzzy-find against.
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By default you get to pick _one_ of those results. That result will go to
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stdout, either printing to the terminal or being piped to the next command.
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For some combinations of commands, it makes more sense to be able to select
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_multiple_ results. `fzf` supports this with the `-m` (or `--multi`) flag.
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```bash
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$ ls | fzf -m | xargs cat
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```
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For instance, this series of commands pipes the output of `ls` (files and
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directoris) to `fzf`. The `-m` flag means that you can hit `Tab` (or
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`Shift+Tab`) to select multile entries. When you hit enter, each of the
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selected entries will be executed one by one with `cat`.
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I show a slightly more practical example of this in [Make One-Line Commands
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Interactive with fzf](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf5eXdwfVws).
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See `man fzf` for more details.
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