iselect (curses-based interactive selection tool) OSSP iselect is an interactive line selection tool for textual files, operating via a full-screen Curses-based terminal session. It can be used either as an user interface frontend controlled by a scripting backend as its wrapper or in batch mode as a pipeline filter (usually between grep and the final executing command). The package also includes screen-ir, a script to interactively reattach to one of several screen sessions.