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Rapid fuzzy finder

FZF

Credit: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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Shashank Sharma is a trial lawyer in Delhi and an avid Arch user. He’s always on the hunt for affordable geeky memorabilia.

hen looking for files on the desktop, you may often rely on the search feature of your favourite file manager. The conventional searching approach is to apply an exact search, so that only files or directory that are a perfect match to the search string are displayed. A fuzzy search, on the other hand, performs an approximate search, and instead of identifying exact matches, displays matching results with each keystroke.

The utility identifies itself as a general-purpose fuzzy finder. Released under the MIT

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