fzf - Fuzzy finder for your shell

fzf is a general-purpose fuzzy finder for your shell.

It was heavily inspired by ctrlp.vim and the likes.

Requirements

fzf requires Ruby (>= 1.8.5).

Installation

Download fzf executable and put it somewhere in your search $PATH.

mkdir -p ~/bin
wget https://raw.github.com/junegunn/fzf/master/fzf -O ~/bin/fzf
chmod +x ~/bin/fzf

Or you can just clone this repository and run install script.

git clone https://github.com/junegunn/fzf.git
fzf/install

Make sure that ~/bin is included in $PATH.

export PATH=$PATH:~/bin

Install as Ruby gem

fzf can be installed as a Ruby gem

gem install fzf

However, this is not recommended since the Ruby gem version of fzf takes slightly longer to start.

Install as Vim plugin

fzf was not designed to be a Vim plugin, but you can use it as one. The only reason one might consider using fzf in Vim is its speed. For a very large list of files, fzf is significantly faster than native Vim plugins.

You can use any Vim plugin manager to install fzf as a Vim plugin. If you don't use one, I recommend you try vim-plug.

1. Install vim-plug

2. Edit your .vimrc

    call plug#begin()
    Plug 'junegunn/fzf'
    " ...
    call plug#end()
   

3. Run :PlugInstall

Usage

usage: fzf [options]

  -s, --sort=MAX   Maximum number of matched items to sort. Default: 500
  +s, --no-sort    Keep the sequence unchanged.
  +i               Case-sensitive match

fzf will launch curses-based finder, read the list from STDIN, and write the selected item to STDOUT.

find * -type f | fzf > selected

Without STDIN pipe, fzf will use find command to fetch the list of files (excluding hidden ones).

vim `fzf`

If you want to preserve the exact sequence of the input, provide --no-sort (or +s) option.

history | fzf +s

Key binding

Use CTRL-J and CTRL-K (or CTRL-N and CTRL-P) to change the selection, press enter key to select the item. CTRL-C will terminate the finder.

The following readline key bindings should also work as expected.

• CTRL-A / CTRL-E
• CTRL-B / CTRL-F
• CTRL-W / CTRL-U

Usage as Vim plugin

If you install fzf as a Vim plugin, :FZF command will be added.

:FZF
:FZF --no-sort

You can override the command which produces input to fzf.

let g:fzf_command = 'find . -type f'

Useful bash examples

# vimf - Open selected file in Vim
vimf() {
  FILE=`fzf` && vim "$FILE"
}

# fd - cd to selected directory
fd() {
  DIR=`find ${1:-*} -path '*/\.*' -prune -o -type d -print 2> /dev/null | fzf` && cd "$DIR"
}

# fda - including hidden directories
fda() {
  DIR=`find ${1:-*} -type d 2> /dev/null | fzf` && cd "$DIR"
}

# fh - repeat history
fh() {
  eval $(history | fzf +s | sed 's/ *[0-9]* *//')
}

# fkill - kill process
fkill() {
  ps -ef | sed 1d | fzf | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -${1:-9}
}

# CTRL-T - Open fuzzy finder and paste the selected item to the command line
bind '"\er": redraw-current-line'
bind '"\C-t": " \C-u \C-a\C-k$(fzf)\e\C-e\C-y\C-a\C-y\ey\C-h\C-e\er"'

License

MIT

Author

Junegunn Choi