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CLI tools to quickly find recently opened files by fuzzy search? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are there any CLI tools like zoxide that allow to quickly find recently opened files by fuzzy search instead of directories?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

fzf? https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Out of the box, would only help searching shell commands that have been run, so for files, things like “vim file.txt”, which is obviously not usually how files are edited (you’d use the file browser in a text editor or IDE)

However if you find a way to list all files on your system by modified time, you can pipe it to fzf for a slick fuzzy find search.

Maybe ag would work here too: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

things like “vim file.txt”, which is obviously not usually how files are edited

You what mate? Don't assume my workflow. "vi file.txt" is obviously superior to clicking inside some texteditor or file browser

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can’t tell you the number of times I have in fact edited files using vim even with a WM and DE. I just treat my laptop like it’s a server I connect directly to now

Oh, or even better how many times I used the terminal in VSC to vim edit something 😂