[pneto]

I've been playing around with the tool FZF recently. It's speeding up my command line workflow quite a lot. I made a small script that allows me to open a fuzzy search for any command, so I can write the command f followed by something like vim, evince, cd, mpv... I can optionally give a starting directory and a first query but I rarely do it. I have it in my .bashrc, but should work in any posix compliant shell. It needs fzf and fd:

  # fuzzy search any command
  f(){
    ROOT_DIR="."
    [ -n "$2" ] && ROOT_DIR="$2"
    FZF_OUT=`fd . -H --color=always "$ROOT_DIR" --exclude "Software/"| fzf --query="$3"`
    [ -n "$FZF_OUT" ] && "$1" "$FZF_OUT"
  }

in my case Software/ is a directory with lots of files I don't need so I exclude it from my searches. I also like using ranger, it has very nice bookmarking and launcher features.