fzfX multiplies the power of fzf by providing zero-configuration battle-tested applications to common use cases of fzf. It delivers the power of finding, previewing, editing and managing any file in few key strokes.

• Features
  • Find files anywhere
  • Find anything
  • Dynamically find a string inside files
  • Change directory
  • Manage processes
  • Find files with special cases
• Setup
• Configure

• default: find any file
• hidden: include hidden files
• full: fulltext, files containing string
• md: markdown notes
• pdf: pdf, ps and eps files
• pic: pictures
• av: audio and video
• cd: change directory
• ps: manage processes

It is agnostic and does not require a specific terminal emulator, desktop environment or text editor. It will make use of improved utils that are becoming standard at Linux desktop environments, like rg, fd, bat, rga, grc and many others. But it will sensibly fallback to their classic UNIX counterparts like grep, cat and ls when they are not available.

$ fzfx

fzfx hidden

By default hidden files, cache/vendor directories like node_modules (see /usr/share/fzfx/ignore) are ignored and .gitignore files inside directories are followed.

$ fzfx full

Note: Supports regular expressions.

$ fzfx cd

To change dir with ENTER create an alias:

alias fcd='cd "$(fzfx cd)"'

Note: Needed because a child shell can't act on its parent.

$ fzfx ps

# markdown notes
$ fzfx md

# pdf, ps and eps
fzfx pdf

# pictures
fzfx pic

# audio and videos
fzfx av

Install through the AUR

Or install as user

$ ./setup install

Edit $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fzfx/config

• Set root="$HOME" to search all your files from anywhere.
• Set editor to override the editor used by fzfx.
• Set ignoreFile to override the default ignore file (.gitignore style).
• Set defaultPreview, pdfView, avView, picView to whatever you prefer.

Note: All configurations are optional.