0xkojiThis is for my next Git post.
I started playing with .gitconfig and got known a great tool, fzf.
fzf can make things easy!!!
fzf
fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder.
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
In this post, I will show what we can do, how to install and a couple of usages.
What We Can Do with fzf
In the following gif, I tried history first then I used h | fzf (h is an alias of history). As you can see, you can find out the command you want to see easily with fzf.
fzf allows us to use git checkout interactively like below.
In addition, you can customize commands with fzf and many people write scripts. In the bottom of this post, I put the link which is very useful for people who want to try fzf. You can also set shortcut keys.
Install
This post supports MacOS and Ubuntu since I have used both of them.
# MacOS
$ brew install fzf
# Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install fzf
If you are using Windows, I highly recommend you to start using chocolatey(https://chocolatey.org/) which is a package manager software.
Simple Usage
File search
I did this command in my Gatsby site folder and searched my components.
$ fzf
$ fzf --reverse
History search
This is very useful to me since I usualy do h | grep 'something' for checking commands I typed before.
$ history | fzf
$ history | fzf --reverse
If you add --reverse you can change the layout like this(maybe better)
Open file with fzf
$ open $(fzf)
Update package with fzf
Sometimes I do typo then get an install error lol
$ brew upgrade $(brew outdated | fzf)
# Then choose a package. Probably user --multi.
jq with API
This is not helpful, but if we need to check a big json return from API with curl command, this might be good ???
By the way, for jq you need to instal jq.
$ curl https://samples.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather\?lat\=35\&lon\=139\&appid\=b6907d289e10d714a6e88b30761fae22 | jq | fzf --reverse
More Information
Examples
You can see more information here (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples).
Key bindings for command-line
Suggestion from @vonheikemen
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#key-bindings-for-command-line
