A terminal-based tool for searching and previewing files. Ideal for system-wide searching.
Run the bash script fzf-preview.sh. This chooses an image viewer and calls fzf with preview script fzf-file2preview.sh.
Keys: Use the backtick (`) to cycle through file and directory results. Press Enter to open the selection.
This is the only critical dependency. The rest expand functionality and can be added as needed.
One of the following, given in fallback order:
- ueberzugpp (suggested, esp. on X11)
- kitty (works in
kitty/ghosttyterminals, employingkitten icat) - chafa
- catimg
| Media | |
|---|---|
| audio | ffmpeg, exiftool |
| video | ffmpegthumbnailer |
| Documents | |
|---|---|
| djvu | ddjvu |
| docx | docx2txt |
| eml (email) | mu |
| epub | epub-thumbnailer |
| markdown | glow |
| odt | odt2txt |
pdftoppm |
| Compressed files | |
|---|---|
| bz2 | bzcat |
| gz | zcat |
| xz | xzcat |
| zip | unzip |
