ccline: I built something that complements fzf — ask your shell instead of searching history

[jianshuo]

Hey fzf community! 👋

Long-time fzf user here. I always use Ctrl+R fzf history search and Ctrl+T file search — they're irreplaceable. But there's a frustration I kept hitting: when I didn't know the exact command I needed, fzf couldn't help because I hadn't typed it before.

So I built ccline to fill that gap.

What it does

ccline hijacks zsh's command_not_found_handler. If you type something that's not a command — like a question or plain English — it asks Claude and renders the answer as Markdown right in your terminal. You can run any suggested command with one keypress.

# I have fzf for finding known things
Ctrl+R → find a command I ran before ✓

# I have ccline for asking about unknown things  
list all files modified today and sort by size
→ Claude: find . -maxdepth 1 -newer ... | sort -k5rn
→ [Enter] to run it

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jianshuo/ccline/main/install.sh | bash

Just set your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and you're set.

Would love feedback from fzf users — how do you handle the case where you don't know the command you need?

→ https://github.com/jianshuo/ccline