fzy - A fuzzy text selector menu for the terminal.
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Description
fzyisafuzzytextselector/filefinderfortheterminalusingasearch similar to that of TextMate or
CmdT.
fzy reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin to be displayed as a menu in the terminal. Upon
pressing ENTER, the currently selected item is printed to stdout.
Entering text narrows the items using fuzzy matching. Results are sorted using heuristics for the best
match.
Keys
ENTER Print the selected item to stdout and exit
Ctrl+c,Esc
Exit with status 1, without making a selection.
UpArrow,Ctrl+p
Select the previous item
DownArrow,Ctrl+n
Select the next item
Tab Replace the current search string with the selected item
Backspace,Ctrl+h
Delete the character before the cursor
Ctrl+w Delete the word before the cursor
Ctrl+u Delete the entire line
Name
fzy - A fuzzy text selector menu for the terminal.
Options
-l, --lines=LINES
How many lines of items to display. If unspecified, defaults to 10 lines.
-p, --prompt=PROMPT
Input prompt (default: '> ')
-s, --show-scores
Show the scores for each item.
-t, --tty=TTY
Use TTY instead of the default tty device (/dev/tty).
-q, --query=QUERY
Use QUERY as the initial search query.
-e, --show-matches=QUERY
Non-interactive mode. Print the matches in sorted order for QUERY to stdout.
-h, --help
Usage help.
-v, --version
Usage help.
Synopsis
fzy[OPTION]...
Usage Examples
ls|fzy
Present a menu of items in the current directory
ls|fzy-l25
Same as above, but show 25 lines of items
vi$(find-typef|fzy)
List files under the current directory and open the one selected in vi.
cd$(find-typed|fzy)
Present all directories under current path, and change to the one selected.
psaux|fzy|awk'{print$2}'|xargskill
List running processes, kill the selected process
gitcheckout$(gitbranch|cut-c3-|fzy)
Same as above, but switching git branches.
