Show found files as hyperlinks just as ls does?

[097115]

Could it possible that fd would return its results as hyperlinks, just as ls, for instance, does:

--hyperlink[=WHEN]
    hyperlink file names; WHEN can be 'always' (default if omitted), 'auto', or 'never'

(Which -- in some terminal emulators -- would allow to open the found files with hotkeys, like via the "Hints" mechanism in alacritty.)

[dandavison]

I think this might be nice. However, we could also do this with a shell wrapper. Here are a couple of quick attempts at that in bash and nushell, preserving fd's colored output, and assuming we want a link to open the path in VSCode.

bash: (requires ansifilter)

function hyperlink() {
    local url="$1"
    local text="$2"
    printf '\e]8;;%s\e\\%s\e]8;;\e\\\n' "$url" "$text"
}

function fd() {
    local _path
    command fd --color=always "$@" \
    | while read _path; do
        local abspath=$(readlink -f $(echo -n $_path | ansifilter))
        local url="vscode://file/$abspath"
        hyperlink $url $_path
      done
}

nushell: (nushell currently doesn't support passing arbitrary arguments on to the wrapped executable)

export def 'str hyperlink' [text: string] {
  let url = $in
  let osc8 = (ansi -o '8;;')
  let st = (ansi st)
  $"($osc8)($url)($st)($text)($osc8)($st)"
}

export def fd [
  pattern: string,
  path: string = ".",
] {
  ^fd --color=always $pattern $path
  | lines
  | each {
    |s| $'vscode://file/($s | ansi strip | path expand)' | str hyperlink $s
  }
  | to text
}

[thenbe]

another alternative: piping the output to ls

# hyperlinked_fd
hfd() {
	fd "$@" --type=file -X ls -l --hyperlink=auto
}

[097115]

@thenbe,

Thanks! Way faster than the previous suggestion :). But, on the other hand, still palpably slower than the plain fd.

It's really a pity @sharkdp isn't interested in this feature... :(

[tmccombs]

As a workaround until #1571 is released you could use the --format option to get this, like so:

fd --format $'\x1b]8;;file://'"${HOSTNAME}${PWD}/{}"$'\x1b\\{}\x1b]8;;\x1b\\'

You may want to use an alias or wrapper script.