fzf

What people said

• “1. for fuzzy search. Great for easily searching and selecting git branches + tags + commits, commands from shell history, files, shell jobs, processes, etc. 2. for more structured scripting.”

• “I also same here. Has since I discovered Ctrl+R, and equipped it with fzf, every terminal command is in my hand, I can fuzzy search and not need to remember the exact command. This really saved me a lot of times.”

• “Some others that look really clean: bat: tldr: fzf:”

• “If you like ctrl^r, you'll _love_”

• “I would highly recommend checking out fzf for better history search. Found the recommendation on another similar thread here and from coworkers. It's surprisingly fast and very intuitive.”

• “This used to happen to me constantly. I fixed it accidentally in switching to Ripgrep which defaults to recursively searching the current directory. Bonus: it parallelises too! Honourable mention also to FZF which not only makes it trivial to locate a file in a directory…”

• “fzf - command-line fuzzy finder Easy to overlook... I almost don't even notice it, but I use it more than any other application (every time I type).”

• “Fuzzy Finder for files, history and more. Integrates with Vim (and maybe other editors). It is wicked fast.”