This may be my favorite CLI tool ever

[@reaperfs2371]

Thanks, nerd

[@subashpraveen]

well... in this side of internet its actually a compliment lol 😂

[@adnope]

this is getting funnier and funnier lol

[@catharsis7629]

You are one of the few devs who actually understands his tooling and is willing to take the time and effort required to properly learn them to make your workflow faster. More devs need to follow this mentality.

[@ErickRodrCodes]

I have been looking for this video FOR MONTHS.... good thing there is a way to check back the history of my views. Thanks!!!

[@thecallumarnold]

If you use the `--bind "enter:become(nvim {})"` flag then it will open the selected file(s) in nvim for you (without needing to prepend your command with `nivm ...`), which means that you can cancel out of the fzf finder without neovim from being entered. With the command listed, escaping fzf will still open nvim, which might not be what you want if you're trying to escape the search. For completeness, this is my alias. alias nf='fzf -m --preview="bat --color=always {}" --bind "enter:become(nvim {+})"'

[@domjan3859]

I was having issues with your listed alias, it showed me STDIN where the bat preview should have been, probably a "me problem"... Anyways, I found a small fix for anyone encountering the same issue: alias nf='fzf -m --preview="bat --color=always {}" --bind "enter:become(nvim {})"' Difference is that fzf passes the file path to bat with the little '{}' after "bat --color=always ..."

[@thecallumarnold]

​@@domjan3859 Thanks for pointing that out - that was an issue on my end. I've edited my comment to make it clear it needs `{}` in both parts!

[@FredMny]

Nice!! Thanks for this

[@scottfollmer]

For some reason with this alias, selecting multiple files didn’t work for me and only the last file selected was actually passed to nvim

[@thecallumarnold]

@@scottfollmer Good spot - I've edited the comment to add a `+` to the `enter...{+}` command that allows multiple files to be opened as separate bufferes

[@tvntvn-b]

unalias does not remove the alias from your .zshrc, it only removes it from the environment of the current session. When you open a new terminal or source your zshrc, the alias will be added again.

[@typecraft_dev]

yes that is correct. was just showing off the feature for FZF

[@Fumbibi]

I was about to ask if I had to resource the zshrc file and I now see that would actually re-alias it rather than completely unalias it. Thanks, friend!

[@cbf305]

Great video. It made me realize I've only scratched the surface of fzf's power. Would you consider doing a showcase video of your mechanical keyboards? Whatever you are typing on in this video sounds really good.

[@adamkarafyllidis9264]

Also nice: 1. nvim Ctrl + t ( opens fzf. Of course works for any command ). 2. Ctrl + r opens shell command history

[@Nitiiii11]

"Ctrl + r opens shell command history" Honestly I have no idea how anyone can use reverse-i-search after discovering this. 100x better on every level.

[@debajyatidey9468]

Exactly always works like a charm

[@keaneplayingmbae2852]

Never knew this w comment

[@frydac]

ctrl-r with fzf is the main reason I install fzf on every pc I touch (if I'm allowed to of course)

[@sledgex9]

For those of us stuck with bash (eg from git for windows) and don't have the zsh history autocomplete, fzf integrates with bash history. So hit CTRL+R and you'll be able to fuzzily find past commands you run. Very handy for me.

[@TheBecke1983]

Sweet, now i got my day planned. Don't know how I missed this program

[@typecraft_dev]

Some of the stuff fzf gives (like kill -9 **) was unknown to me as well, even though I've been using fzf for a WHILE

[@TheBecke1983]

@@typecraft_dev Kind of feels like that when using Linux tbh, learning new things constantly :)

[@bpbrainiak]

thanks nerd, your video + coffee = great day

[@typecraft_dev]

hell yeah, just made coffee myself!

[@gand0rfTRZ]

Why do you keep giving us great weekend projects?? Thanks for showing us this. Now I can't wait to get home and install it.

[@JakeLinux]

Fzf is one of my favorite tools, I have a few videos covering it on my channel. I made videos showing how I use it to make my menus, my app launcher, I even made a terminal file manager out of it. Great tool.

[@typecraft_dev]

awesome!

[@phortheman]

I use fzf every day for work. It’s probably the best CLI tool out there!

[@QWEEKEN73]

That kill command looks insanely useful. Giving fzf a try!

[@typecraft_dev]

Regarding kill, just make sure you take a look at this article so you use kill safely! learn.typecraft.dev/tutorial/kill-choices/

[@Kunal-k-u-m-a-r]

i used it before but learned new things today i hadn't figured out earlier

[@Cur10usly]

Amazing tool! I should start using it

[@japadkman]

with fzf on my shell i can press ctrl+r then it will fuzzy find any commands on my bash history, i use it quite often

[@typecraft_dev]

yup! thats one of the best. I've used it so often I actually forgot about it for this video. lol

[@imrafiel401]

how you setup keyboard shortcuts for the terminal?

[@japadkman]

@@imrafiel401 I don't know, ctrl +r is a default shortcut in all terminals I have ever used

[@_Holy_Lance_]

Thank you, Chris.

[@typecraft_dev]

My pleasure!

[@muslimgamerrr9479]

love the arch btw

[@typecraft_dev]

haha

[@muslimgamerrr9479]

@@typecraft_dev cant live without btw thx so much for this video i had no idea how fzf works

[@BalduinoFernando]

Now, this is a really good trick!

[@JonBrookes]

fzf is very nice as is your video and guide. Thanks. I picked up some very useful things I hadn't used. I also use cntrl r in bash and search history that way which is kind of similar but where fsf is not present

[@typecraft_dev]

Yes FZF with history search is amazing I forgot to add it in this video!

[@armaandhanji2112]

Amazing content. Subscribed!! By the way can you tell me where you got your desktop wallpaper from?

[@typecraft_dev]

github.com/typecraft-dev/dotfiles/tree/master/backgrounds

[@steveb6817]

Nice! Ty for that tip!

[@Pasty0386]

Awesome! Please a video for vim to properly share the vim clipboard with the system one. 😄

[@paulhammond8583]

I didn’t know about the ** stuff. Cheers for that!

[@dolvur]

Damn, didn't know about the ** which seems to send tab input into fzf. So convenient!

[@claudioonoue]

0:42 The pacman frontend name almos killed me 🤣

[@anonlegion9096]

fzf is a god tier cli tool, hands down

[@QuOUseTERSEa]

I think people should only use fzf when you need multi selections or “fuzzy” search. When you know what you’re searching, it doesn’t make sense to use fzf, since it’s much faster to use fd, grep, glob, etc. It slow down your process and just add an interface that make u feel fast 😂

[@baky5372]

I've seen people use this but never knew what it was called. Thanks so much for the great video!

[@typecraft_dev]

Glad you liked the video!

[@bhuvan1036]

Wait, how did you know i was searching for this...

[@channinghsu46]

Really enjoy every video of yours, thanks nerd!!

[@typecraft_dev]

Thank you, nerd!

[@ludwig8841]

Quick tip for those who use fish shell ** will not work instead, just CTRL+T to get the same functionality you can find more information here github.com/junegunn/fzf?tab=readme-ov-file#fish-shell

[@Stilllife1999]

** didn't work for me in zsh either

[@maybehawk5205]

Thanks, Nerd

[@apptimegr]

Your videos are awesome! 👌

[@typecraft_dev]

You are awesome

[@Ramilkos]

Instantly in love with how it works with shell history.

[@Kunal-k-u-m-a-r]

can you make a video on best cli development lang or framworks

[@olafschermann1592]

Awesome, thank you!

[@glowing_flare]

You're the most efficient dev and KZbin content creator I know! Keep it up man, you're awesome. 💪

[@typecraft_dev]

awesome, will do!

[@elnurbda]

i did not know i need it. thanks O_O

[@taiy2181]

thanks for the inspiration

[@TheBearmoth]

Using it with a preview is new to me. Thanks for the awesome tip!

[@typecraft_dev]

yeah, big part of the reason I made the video. that was new to me as well!

[@noopurp123]

When I try to run kill -9 **, I get the old logs pasted on the screen instead of the interactive fzf prompt. What's with that? Am I missing something?

[@benjaminschultz6501]

Take a shot every time he says, “Fuzzily findable.”

[@bagfleet]

Great vid!

[@typecraft_dev]

Thanks!

[@tiagomello]

Which keyboard are you using?

[@typecraft_dev]

Happy hacking keyboard Type S amzn.to/3C8iLwP

[@kmuju1158]

Are you using i3 in this video? If so, how did you get the bar at the top of the terminal?

[@typecraft_dev]

Nah used gnome just for presentation

[@kmuju1158]

@@typecraft_dev Yeh that makes sense. Great video, need to look more into integrating fzf into my workflow. Have you looked at the tmux-sessionizer script by primeagen? Its a great script that uses fzf to open a folder in tmux. Had to change part of it to work for me but dont remember exactly what was wrong.

[@ManpreetSingh-ox6hh]

which theme you are using??

[@typecraft_dev]

catpuccin

[@netbin]

How u return back from nvim back to fzf though?

[@dDesirie]

So is it like Raycast or Alfred but for CLI? This is pretty cool!

[@BrentMalice]

lmao i went to ask for this yesterday but i got distracted. now its here. OPRAH WAS RIGHT IM MANIFESTING

[@typecraft_dev]

I always thank oprah

[@timonjur]

I actually have to change my terminal to Alacritty at some point, since Warp does not support fzf at the moment

[@typecraft_dev]

ah yes. warp kinda implements its own fuzzy find stuff.

[@thoric01]

This tool is almost as awesome as you

[@typecraft_dev]

awwwwwww

[@djbessel]

How do you feel about oh-my-zsh? Adding fzf means I just add it to my plugins list, instead of a list of actions cluttering my .zshrc for fzf, nvm, whatever.

[@typecraft_dev]

That’s a great approach as well

[@samarth-kun]

Hello again 👋🏻 Where can I get that background wallpaper it's so calming 😸

[@TheBendixSA]

I'm still learning so feel free to flame but isn't yay used for the arch user repo? what is meant by calling it a front end for pacman then which is used for the Arch package repo? aren't they kind different tools to get packages from different places? (I do now yay is installed from pacman)

[@sarkedev]

0:34 it's not D-bien, it's Deb-Ian. It was created by Ian Murdock and named after his gf Debra (Deb for short, later ex-wife) and himself.

[@typecraft_dev]

I always mess it up! Great explanation I didn’t know that

[@gh0stzk-dotfiles]

Thanks nerd!! One question: What if i dont wanna write the ** to completion, i just wanna press tab as always? how i can do this?

[@m0r4ag]

Solo exporta esta variable de entorno: export FZF_COMPLETION_TRIGGER='' Lo probé antes de responder, no me pareció muy cómodo de usar

[@gh0stzk-dotfiles]

@@m0r4ag gracias voy a probar, quiero emular de manera "nativa" lo que hace fzf-tab-git qué se puede instalar desde aur, donde igual solo basta poner por ejemplo "cd " en vez de cd **

[@allenkim4776]

I was very appriciated for your neovim video. I want to use ftp-sync in neovim like vscode(sftp or ftp-simple), but I couldn't find out how to set for it. Please help us!

[@paultapping9510]

kill -9 ** is an incredible tip

[@typecraft_dev]

right? I love it!

[@urizen959]

Hey man i hope you see this but i mistakenly deleted my zshconfig that had fzf setup and pipes output of other commands into fzf when i use the tab button without using the **.Could you make a video on that or your dotfiles would be better. Thank you

[@ypucandeleteit]

the kill -9 ** command is sick! Anyone have an idea how i can get the ** stuff to work on fish shell?

[@sp10sn]

I don't lose stuff often enough for fuzzy find to be useful.

[@typecraft_dev]

fair enough

[@ゾカリクゾ]

chad dev

[@ankushroy1729]

I use it to find old ffmpeg and one liner commands that might need some time and overhead.

[@mathijswy]

Even if you don't lose the files, isn't it a very fast way of navigating the file tree regardless?

[@glidersuzuki5572]

It's not just to find lost stuff. It's to find stuff faster. When you multiple files in different locations or deeply nested directories, fzf makes it way easy to find them

[@LucasMahatokyRAMILISON]

Hi,My laptop is a bit old by it works, Does it make my laptop slower,?

[@xbeast7585]

Thanks Man

[@bzboii]

what terminal emulator do you use

[@sumirandahal76]

Why did u left arch ?

[@typecraft_dev]

This video is recorded on arch

[@sumirandahal76]

@@typecraft_dev in next video don't forgot to mention I use Arch , btw

[@uoweme5grand]

What keyboard are you using? Sounds like a topre

[@typecraft_dev]

Topre for sure - HHKB Type S - check it out amzn.to/3C8iLwP

[@chri-k]

alao make sure to use fd instead of find (it's like 6 times faster). fzf will automatically prefer fd if you have it installed

[@APerson-jf2md]

4:39 - that means you didn't checkout broot yet :)

[@Lorne_at_work]

fzf is awesome, but the latest stable version for Ubuntu is missing some of those cool features. I hope that changes soon. Or I guess I could always swap to Arch :D

[@typecraft_dev]

another reason for arch!!! lol

[@samuelgadiel]

"I use arch, btw" - 0:28

[@danielwood4786]

Come on nerd. You missed the fzf history search. Ctrl+r in bash, probably something similar in Zsh

[@typecraft_dev]

ah yeah, I've used that for so long I forgot to include it in the video!

[@FranLegon]

Pretty cool

[@Em0L0rd]

Only if I had a penny for every time typecraft talked about fzf...

[@zukxxxx0]

Can you upload setting up nix package manager, home manager and nix profile with flakes guide🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@typecraft_dev]

that is on the list. the looooonnng list :)

[@itzaryaanyt2003]

Someone tell me how to ignore specific files and folder while searching through fzf and how to add some specific files and folder to show in fzf , thanks

[@typecraft_dev]

Follow-up tutorial inbound!

[@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX]

I swear I've seen a fzf video from this channel before?

[@typecraft_dev]

nope! this is the first one

[@bojanstrkovski21]

it's could be part of a video i think it was one in the neovim series but awesome new comands to find things i've lost trough my pc yhanks nerd 😄

[@chrislee9344]

who needs all of that when you have `find`.

[@ispyu1514]

Next one on yazi?? 👀

[@obeyoutube]

bomb diggity ❤

[@typecraft_dev]

boomshakalaka

[@kevin.michaels]

Is it just me or did this video feel like it was going n 1.25x speed? Other than that, great vid :)

[@berend109]

For me I probably prefer ranger.

[@adriansrfr]

Yazi is better

[@berend109]

@@adriansrfr I don’t know that tool, wil look at it tonight.

[@ddthegr8]

linux for newbs 4 when

[@typecraft_dev]

what would you like to see in linux for newbs 4? I want to know!

[@emiliocanton1494]

Your vim and tmux configs for productivity

[@ddthegr8]

@@typecraft_dev I'd love to see a full arch + i3 + neovim setup from scratch, maybe live

[@agh0x01]

@6:55, why would you go straight to a `kill -9` - don't teach people bad habits! Use a normal kill (SIGTERM) first and give the process a chance to exit gracefully before reaching for the nuclear option.

[@typecraft_dev]

Haha I guess I have that bad habit too. Oops!

[@typecraft_dev]

For anyone reading this thread and want to know more, we cover this here learn.typecraft.dev/tutorial/kill-choices/

[@agh0x01]

@@typecraft_dev thanks, nerd!

[@mrlectus]

kill multiple program?

[@ispyu1514]

Day 4 of asking to make a video on how do you record and stream stuff on arch linux!

[@typecraft_dev]

the answer: I don't!

[@ispyu1514]

@@typecraft_dev then how?

[@typecraft_dev]

@@ispyu1514 technically I can stream from arch pretty much out of box with OBS. But not all things are supported (like nvidia). So now I stream through a capture card on a PC

[@ispyu1514]

@@typecraft_dev ohh but does ur obs on arch works with window capture or just screen capture?

[@programming8150]

Super usefull video

[@highlander576]

0:41 🏳‍🌈The gay package manager

[@falwickster]

Preety cool

[@typecraft_dev]

you are

[@shizeeque]

here's like #172 for pronouncing "Zee/Zed Shell correctly". It's not "zeesh". 👌

[@typecraft_dev]

I think I say it both ways, lol. I'm sure I mis-pronounced "debian" in this video too haha. can't help it!

[@laughingvampire7555]

making the shell more like emacs, just use emacs.

[@imanav07]

someone can just use locate?

[@Xaito]

"I use Arch btw." Have a like, good sir.

[@typecraft_dev]

THANKS!

[@qandak]

Be careful using "cat" with huge files, it's not a pager!

[@typecraft_dev]

Good call

[@BrianPeisley]

For safety, you can limit the number of lines used for the preview. For cat you can limit the output with -n , and with bat you can limit it to a range of lines with -r, like bat -r :500 to get up to the first 500 lines

[@timsuchan5977]

Great video but yay is an aur helper not a frontend to pacman

[@bender2033]

tac is cat backwards.

[@LorenzoBettini]

Yay is an AUR helper, not a frontend for pacman

[@juanmacias5922]

Laptop go Brrr

[@serggie3]

Cool, but the vid could be a lot shorter