I hope more command-line interfaces adopt a similar pattern. I pet peeve of mine is searching for a package (irrelevant of the package manager) and then install

I hope more command-line interfaces adopt a similar pattern. I pet peeve of mine is searching for a package (irrelevant of the package manager) and then installing it. In terms of interaction, it goes on something like this: $ ${tool} search ${pattern} res1 res2 res3 # I'm interested in the first and last package names. $ ${tool} install <grab mouse> <double-click res1> <shift-insert> <double-click res3> <shift-insert> # On a side-note, this can also be done with tmux copy-mode by appending the # results to a buffer, but I personally find that using the mouse is faster # in this case. Enumerating the results of the search and doing a '${tool} install %1 %3' would be a huge improvement. I once offered to add [1] such functionality to freebsd binary package manager, but nothing came out of it (perhaps for good reasons). [1]: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1041 https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1041