FZY

NAME

fzy - A fuzzy text selector menu for the terminal.

SYNOPSIS

fzy [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

fzy is a fuzzy text selector/file finder for the terminal using a search 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.

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.

KEYS

ENTER

Print the selected item to stdout and exit

Ctrl+c, Esc

Exit with status 1, without making a selection.

Up Arrow, Ctrl+p

Select the previous item

Down Arrow, 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

USAGE EXAMPLES

ls | fzy

Present a menu of items in the current directory

ls | fzy -l 25

Same as above, but show 25 lines of items

vi $(find -type f | fzy)

List files under the current directory and open the one selected in vi.

cd $(find -type d | fzy)

Present all directories under current path, and change to the one selected.

ps aux | fzy | awk ’{ print $2 }’ | xargs kill

List running processes, kill the selected process

git checkout $(git branch | cut -c 3- | fzy)

Same as above, but switching git branches.

AUTHOR

John Hawthorn <john.hawthorn@gmail.com>