A Practical Guide to fzf: Building a File Explorer

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  • broot

    A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot

  • - will navigate via broot if it is a directory or will view it on a pager --bind 'ctrl-/:execute( if [[ -d {} ]]; then broot {} > /dev/tty else bat --paging=always -pf -l=sh {} > /dev/tty fi)' // Also can add another condition to check file-mimetype if an image to preview it

  • Junction

    Application/browser chooser (by sonnyp)

  • - for opening files, I'm using junction for application chooser --bind 'ctrl-o:execute(flatpak run re.sonny.Junction {+})' Or xdg-open for opening default apps

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  • scripts

    various scripts and tools (by xkcd386at)

  • meanwhile, speaking of file managers using fzf, take a look at https://github.com/xkcd386at/scripts/blob/master/fzfm

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