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@@ -11,3 +11,40 @@ Selecting a drive from the system
 ```bash
 lsblk -lno type,name | grep part | awk '{ print "/dev/" $2 }' | select_option
 ```
+
+If you use the wrapper you can then pipe your output to more commands:
+```bash
+lsblk -lno type,name | grep part | awk '{ print "/dev/" $2 }' | ./wrapper.sh | xargs -I% echo Mounting %...
+
+```
+
+### What about bash's `select`?
+
+I didn't know this existed when I wrote this program.
+But on the plus side they aren't exact copies of eachother.
+Bash's `select` works like:
+```bash
+select x in a b c; do
+    echo "selected: $x"
+    break
+done
+```
+Where it just creates a little text menu:
+```txt
+1) one
+2) two
+3) three
+#?
+```
+Of which you can input your number.
+This has some issues:
+
+1. You can select values that are out of bounds. Meaning that your script to be defensivly programmed.
+1. You can't use vim keys to move around.
+1. It is harder to implement into a stream since you have to turn your agruments into an array. (Seems to be designed for scripts, not one-liners.)
+1. I didn't make the program.
+
+Interestingly, I found the same trick they use to allow for menus to be printed but also pipe the output.
+By putting them menu on `stderr` instead of `stdout` you can have a menu that doesn't get yoinked by the pipe's reidrection.
+
+