useful add-ons

This is a collection of useful CLI utilities, which usually are not by default installed by GNU/Linux distributions.

fzf cli fuzzy finder

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. I didn’t find the usage of fzf straightforward. However, it is a prerequisite for zoxide, which I have on my machine.

Packages exist for several Linux distros and it available from the GitHub repo junegunn/fzf

zoxide: cd on steroids

zoxide consists of z, an alternative to cd, and zi, which is zoxide with an interactive mode. Once you z into a path with z, it remembers the path. Next time you can z into the path by typing a part of the path. If several paths share the part of the path, you can use zi for an interactive selection.

interactive path selection in zi

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Packages exist for several Linux distros, and it is available from the GitHub repo ajeetdsouza/zoxide .

Requires the fzf cli fuzzy finder.

For using z in Bash, add eval "$(zoxide init bash)" to the end of your Bash startup file (i.e., ~/.bashrc). Zoxide stores the paths in ${_ZO_DATA_DIR}/db.zo, which defaults to XDG_DATA_DIR. On my machine, I have configured it to use the .cache dir: