FZF Commands Cheat Sheet

Here is a cli commands cheat sheet for FZF command, you can use this as a quick reminder for basic commands with a brief description for each of the commands.

What is FZF command?

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        # To fuzzy find files in current directory
fzf

# To fuzzy find a file and cat it
cat $(fzf)

# Case sensitive search
fzf +i

# Case insensitve search
fzf -i

# Select multiple files (TAB to select, Shift+TAB to un-select) to delete
rm -rf $(fzf --multi)

# Run a preview command with fzf, specifiy a command inside the double quotes.
fzf --preview "file {}"

# Find files from find command and preview it with fzf
find . -type f -name "*.txt" | fzf --preview "head {}"

# Display border around fzf output 
fzf --border sharp

# Output only selected files and pipe it to a file
find . -type f "*.txt" | fzf --multi > output.txt
    

Check out the FZF command documentation .


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