FZF is an interactive Unix command-line tool written in the GO language.

You can use it to find any list contents, files, history commands, native bound hosts, processes, Git branches, processes, etc. All command line tools that can generate list output can be searched and found on FZF through pipe

Project address: github.com/junegunn/fz…

The installation

We can easily install it through the package management tool

  • Macos-brew download and install

    brew install fzf
#Install keyboard mapping and fuzzy hints
$(brew --prefix)/opt/fzf/install
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  • Debian series – apt install FZF

  • Windows – Download and install from Release

  • Use Git to download and install

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.git ~/.fzf
#The installation
~/.fzf/install
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update

  • git: cd ~/.fzf && git pull && ./install
  • brew: brew update; brew reinstall fzf

use

CTRL-TFind an entry in the directory

Use Ctrl-t to find a file or directory in the paste directory to the command line

CTRL-RFind History command

Use Ctrl-R to find and paste the selected history command to the command line, and you can toggle chronology and relevance sorting by pressing Ctrl-R again

shortcuts

In the output swap window

  • Ctrl-j/CtrL-K/CtrL-N/CTRLK-n can be used to move the cursor up and down
  • The Enter key is used to select the entry and Ctrl-c/Ctrl-g /Esc is used to exit
  • In multi-select mode (-m), TAB and shift-tab are used for multi-select
  • Mouse: Scroll up and down, select, double-click; Shift-click or shift-SCOLl is used in multi-select mode

Search syntax

FZF starts by default with “extened-search” mode, in which you can enter multiple space-separated search terms, such as ^ music.mp3 $, SBTRKT! fire.

Token Match type Description
sbtrkt fuzzy-match Matching SBTRKT
^music prefix-exact-match Begin with music
.mp3^ suffix-exact-match End with. Mp3
‘wild exact-match(quoted) Exact inclusion of wild
! fire inverse-exact-match Does not contain the fire
! .mp3$ inverse-suffix-exact-match It doesn’t end in.mp3

If you don’t want to use fuzzy match, can make an exact match with FZF – e symbol “|” the or matching can be done, for example

#Represents those that begin with core and end with go or rb or py
^core go$|rb$|py$
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The preview window

You can preview text dynamically with FZF –preview ‘cat {}’, instead of using one cat at a time

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