ff searches a directory tree with basic fuzzy-completion. I wrote it
because find -name "blah" only scans filename (not their parent
directories), and regular expressions for fuzzy completion are
cumbersome.
Searching for "aeiou" will print any paths that match the RE
.*a.*e.*i.*o.*u.*.
By default, ff searches recursively from the current directory, but its
search root can be set with the -r option.
ff query strings are not regular expressions - characters such as
'.' and '-' match literally. Any sections enclosed in '/'s
will be required to match within the same path element, and the
consecutive match character (default '=') toggles exact matching.
(I chose '=' because it doesn't mean anything in basic REs and it's
unshifted on most keyboards.)
See also: compound-completion
Just run make. I mean, it's one C file. The makefile is just ff: ff.c.
Copy ff somewhere in your path.
ff aeiou matches both ~/and/the/first/one/used.txt
and ~/after_the_furious_ultimatum.txt, because the characters 'a', 'e',
'i', 'o', and 'u' appear sequentially.
ff a/e/i/o/u only matches ~/and/the/first/one/used.txt, since the /s force
each vowel to appear in its own directory element.
ff ae=iou= would only match ~/after_the_furious_ultimatum.txt, since
it matches an 'a', then an 'e', then the =s specify a consecutive "iou" string.
ff [-diltR] [-c char] [-n count] [-r root] query
-c CHAR char to toggle Consecutive match (default: '=')
-d show Dotfiles
-h print this Help
-i case-Insensitive search
-l follow Links (warning: no cycle detection)
-t run Tests and exit
-r ROOT set search Root (default: .)
-R don't recurse subdirectories