Revision as of 13:40, 14 April 2024

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.

Shell extensions

fzf provides additional key bindings (CTRL-T, CTRL-R, and ALT-C) for shells

First install fzf in your profile, then use one of the following methods:

To enable fzf in bash add the following line to .bashrc

eval "$(fzf --bash)"

To enable fzf in zsh add the following line to .zshrc

eval "$(fzf --zsh)"

To enable fzf in fish, add the following to $HOME/.config/fish/functions/fish_user_key_bindings.fish

fzf --fish | source

You can interactively search the list of available packages with:

nix-env -qa | fzf

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 To enable fzf in bash add the following line to .bashrc
-<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">if command -v fzf-share >/dev/null; then
+<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">eval "$(fzf --bash)"</syntaxhighlight>
-  source "$(fzf-share)/key-bindings.bash"
-  source "$(fzf-share)/completion.bash"
-fi</syntaxhighlight>
 == zsh ==
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 <syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
-if [ -n "${commands[fzf-share]}" ]; then
+eval "$(fzf --zsh)"
-  source "$(fzf-share)/key-bindings.zsh"
-  source "$(fzf-share)/completion.zsh"
-fi
 </syntaxhighlight>
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 <syntaxhighlight lang="fish">
-function fish_user_key_bindings
+fzf --fish | source
-  if command -s fzf-share >/dev/null
-    source (fzf-share)/key-bindings.fish
-  end
-  fzf_key_bindings
-end
 </syntaxhighlight>