diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c31f457..4e39597 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ smart people at [Hashrocket](http://hashrocket.com/). For a steady stream of TILs from a variety of rocketeers, checkout [til.hashrocket.com](https://til.hashrocket.com/). -_799 TILs and counting..._ +_800 TILs and counting..._ --- @@ -747,6 +747,7 @@ _799 TILs and counting..._ - [Search History](unix/search-history.md) - [Search Man Page Descriptions](unix/search-man-page-descriptions.md) - [Securely Remove Files](unix/securely-remove-files.md) +- [Show A File Preview When Searching With FZF](unix/show-a-file-preview-when-searching-with-fzf.md) - [Show Disk Usage For The Current Directory](unix/show-disk-usage-for-the-current-directory.md) - [Show The Size Of Everything In A Directory](unix/show-the-size-of-everything-in-a-directory.md) - [SSH Escape Sequences](unix/ssh-escape-sequences.md) diff --git a/unix/show-a-file-preview-when-searching-with-fzf.md b/unix/show-a-file-preview-when-searching-with-fzf.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2afd0be --- /dev/null +++ b/unix/show-a-file-preview-when-searching-with-fzf.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# Show A File Preview When Searching With FZF + +[FZF](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) by itself is a great way to fuzzy +find files. It gets even better when you can view a preview of a file before +opening it up. The `--preview` flag lets you do just this. + +Add a basic file preview with `cat`: + +```bash +$ fzf --preview 'cat {}' +``` + +The `{}` will get replaced a single-quoted string of the highlighted file. + +You can spice up the preview a bit with color and line numbers using +[`bat`](https://github.com/sharkdp/bat): + +```bash +$ fzf --preview 'bat --color "always" {}' +``` + +The `--color` flag tells `bat` to produce syntax highlighted output even +though it isn't in interactive mode. + +Lastly, you can keep it performant by only showing the first 100 lines: + +```bash +$ fzf --preview 'bat --color "always" --line-range 0:100 {}' +``` + +See `man fzf` for more details. + +[source](https://github.com/dkarter/dotfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L362)