FZY(1) General Commands Manual FZY(1) NAME fzy - A fuzzy text selector menu for the terminal. SYNOPSIS fzy [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION fzy is a fuzzy text selector/file finder for the terminal using a search similar to that of TextMate or CmdT. fzy reads a list of newline-separated items from stdin to be displayed as a menu in the terminal. Upon pressing ENTER, the currently selected item is printed to stdout. Entering text narrows the items using fuzzy matching. Results are sorted using heuristics for the best match. OPTIONS -l, --lines=LINES How many lines of items to display. If unspecified, defaults to 10 lines. -p, --prompt=PROMPT Input prompt (default: '> ') -s, --show-scores Show the scores for each item. -t, --tty=TTY Use TTY instead of the default tty device (/dev/tty). -q, --query=QUERY Use QUERY as the initial search query. -e, --show-matches=QUERY Non-interactive mode. Print the matches in sorted order for QUERY to stdout. -0, --read-null Read input delimited by ASCII NUL characters. -i, --show-info Show selection info line. -h, --help Usage help. -v, --version Usage help. KEYS ENTER Print the selected item to stdout and exit Ctrl+c, Ctrl+g, Esc Exit with status 1, without making a selection. Up Arrow, Ctrl+p, Ctrl+k Select the previous item Down Arrow, Ctrl+n, Ctrl+j Select the next item Tab Replace the current search string with the selected item Backspace, Ctrl+h Delete the character before the cursor Ctrl+w Delete the word before the cursor Ctrl+u Delete the entire line USAGE EXAMPLES ls | fzy Present a menu of items in the current directory ls | fzy -l 25 Same as above, but show 25 lines of items vi $(find -type f | fzy) List files under the current directory and open the one selected in vi. cd $(find -type d | fzy) Present all directories under current path, and change to the one selected. ps aux | fzy | awk '{ print $2 }' | xargs kill List running processes, kill the selected process git checkout $(git branch | cut -c 3- | fzy) Same as above, but switching git branches. AUTHOR John Hawthorn <john.hawthorn@gmail.com> fzy 1.1 2025-07-12 FZY(1)
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