PSFzf VS fd

Sets up PSFzf: PowerShell wrapper for fzf, for fuzzy finding files and directories

# To make ZLocation module work in every PowerShell instance. Import-Module ZLocation # PSFzf has undocumented option to use fd executable for # file and directory searching. This enables that option. Set-PsFzfOption -EnableFd:$true # Custom function to SetLocation, because PSFzf uses # Get-ChildItem which doesn't use fd and doesn't use # ignore files. Invoke-FuzzySetLocation is defined here # https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf/blob/b97263a30addd9a2c84a8603382c92e4e6de0eeb/PSFzf.Functions.ps1#L142 # # This implementation is for setting FileSystem location # and implementation uses parts of # https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf/blob/b97263a30addd9a2c84a8603382c92e4e6de0eeb/PSFzf.Base.ps1#L20 # https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf/blob/b97263a30addd9a2c84a8603382c92e4e6de0eeb/PSFzf.Base.ps1#L35 function Invoke-FuzzySetLocation2() { param($Directory = $null) if ($null -eq $Directory) { $Directory = $PWD.Path } $result = $null try { # Color output from fd to fzf if running in Windows Terminal $script:RunningInWindowsTerminal = [bool]($env:WT_Session) if ($script:RunningInWindowsTerminal) { $script:DefaultFileSystemFdCmd = "fd.exe --color always . {0}" } else { $script:DefaultFileSystemFdCmd = "fd.exe . {0}" } # Wrap $Directory in quotes if there is space (to be passed in fd) if ($Directory.Contains(' ')) { $strDir = """$Directory""" } else { $strDir = $Directory } # Call fd to get directory list and pass to fzf Invoke-Expression (($script:DefaultFileSystemFdCmd -f '--type directory {0} --max-depth 1') -f $strDir) | Invoke-Fzf | ForEach-Object { $result = $_ } } catch { } if ($null -ne $result) { Set-Location $result } } # Show tips about newly added commands function Get-Tips { $tips = @( [pscustomobject]@{ Command = 'fcd' Description = 'navigate to subdirectory' }, [pscustomobject]@{ Command = 'ALT+C' Description = 'navigate to deep subdirectory' }, [pscustomobject]@{ Command = 'z' Description = 'ZLocation' }, [pscustomobject]@{ Command = 'fz' Description = 'ZLocation through fzf' }, [pscustomobject]@{ Command = 'fe' Description = 'fuzzy edit file' }, [pscustomobject]@{ Command = 'fh' Description = 'fuzzy invoke command from history' }, [pscustomobject]@{ Command = 'fkill' Description = 'fuzzy stop process' }, [pscustomobject]@{ Command = 'fd' Description = 'find https://github.com/sharkdp/fd#how-to-use' }, [pscustomobject]@{ Command = 'rg' Description = 'find in files https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md' } ) Write-Output $tips | Format-Table } # Define aliases to call fuzzy methods from PSFzf New-Alias -Scope Global -Name fcd -Value Invoke-FuzzySetLocation2 -ErrorAction Ignore New-Alias -Scope Global -Name fe -Value Invoke-FuzzyEdit -ErrorAction Ignore New-Alias -Scope Global -Name fh -Value Invoke-FuzzyHistory -ErrorAction Ignore New-Alias -Scope Global -Name fkill -Value Invoke-FuzzyKillProcess -ErrorAction Ignore New-Alias -Scope Global -Name fz -Value Invoke-FuzzyZLocation -ErrorAction Ignore

Are you using PSFzf or something else? https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf

kelleyma49/PSFzf: A PowerShell wrapper around the fuzzy finder fzf — https://github.com/kelleyma49/PSFzf

ripgrep: A super-fast file searcher. You can install it using your system's package manager (e.g., brew install ripgrep on macOS). fd: Another blazing-fast file finder. Installation instructions can be found here: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

hyperfine is such a great tool that it's one of the first I reach for when doing any sort of benchmarking.

I encourage anyone who's tried hyperfine and enjoyed it to also look at sharkdp's other utilities, they're all amazing in their own right with fd[1] being the one that perhaps get the most daily use for me and has totally replaced my use of find(1).

[1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n ` instead, it’ll start the find with `` already filled in (and if there’s only one match, jump to it directly). The `ls` is optional but I find that I like having the contents visible as soon as I change a directory.

I’m also including iCloud Drive but excluding the Library directory as that is too noisy. I have a separate `nl` function which searches just inside `~/Library` for when I need it, as well as other specialised `n` functions that search inside specific places that I need a lot.

¹ https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

² https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Many (most?) of them have been overhauled with success. For find there is fd[1]. There's batcat, exa (ls), ripgrep, fzf, atuin (history), delta (diff) and many more.

Most are both backwards compatible and fresh and friendly. Your hardwon muscle memory still of good use. But there's sane flags and defaults too. It's faster, more colorful (if you wish), better integration with another (e.g. exa/eza or aware of git modifications). And, in my case, often features I never knew I needed (atuin sync!, ripgrep using gitignore).

1 https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Descubra mais sobre o fd em: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

AFAIK there is a find replacement with sane defaults: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd , a lot of people I know love it.

However, I already have this in my muscle memory:

fd

> without zsh globs I have to remember find syntax

My "solution" to this is using https://github.com/sharkdp/fd (even when in zsh and having glob support). I'm not sure if using a tool that's not present by default would be suitable for your use cases, but if you're considering alternate shells, I suspect you might be

Nice to see other alternatives to find. I personally use fd (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) a lot, as I find the UX much better. There is one thing that I think could be better, around the difference between "wanting to list all files that follow a certain pattern" and "wanting to find one or a few specific files". Technically, those are the same, but an issue I'll often run into is wanting to search something in dotfiles (for example the Go tools), use the unrestricted mode, and it'll find the few files I'm looking for, alongside hundreds of files coming from some cache/backup directory somewhere. This happens even more with rg, as it'll look through the files contents.

I'm not sure if this is me not using the tool how I should, me not using Linux how I should, me using the wrong tool for this job, something missing from the tool or something else entirely. I wonder if other people have this similar "double usage issue", and I'm interested in ways to avoid it.