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by stevendgarcia 2359 days ago
Loving everything about this. You really knocked it out the park. It's so much more ergonomic than cd + ls (which feels like a caveman solution by comparison) Congrats on bringing directory navigation into the 21st Century. I have installed it on all my servers and I will use it forever. Long live Broot!
2 comments

Don't want to downplay broot, but fzf has been around for a while and when I first discovered it I had the exact same idea 'YEAH finally directory/file navigation for the 21st century' :) Mainly because of the fuzzy matching, and because of the ways to extend it and because it works on most platforms. Possibly there were already predecessors though, not sure.
Another poster mentioned https://github.com/lotabout/skim but I haven't compared it to fzf yet.
I don't think interactive tools such as broot are meant to replace standard shell commands. Interactive tools are more user-friendly, but classical shell commands are easier to script and pipe together.