[dTal]

It's a shame Bash used 'select' as an elaborate menu built-in - it'd be quite neat to name the binary that (and drop the quotes). The you could just type the query right into your prompt!

[koolba]

You could use an alias. They're case sensitive so SELECT could be mapped without impacting the built in "select".

[labster]

Just use the fish shell instead, and you can avoid the years of shell cruft of bash, or the endless customization of zsh. Bash is a good environment for shell scripting, but not really the best for user interaction. Although perl is probably the best environment for shell scripting.

[fnj]

Xonsh is far better both interactively and for scripting than bash, fish, zsh, or perl.

[lorenzhs]

"alias select=command select" lets you override it.