Integrating TLDR with FZF
In this post, we gonna dive into TLDR with fzf search.
Usage of TLDR
Go to your favorite terminal, with TLDR enabled, and execute the following command:
$ tldr brew
Searching with FZF
$ fzf .
It will execute a fuzzy search in the current directory.
Passing a TLDR list to FZF
$ tldr --list | fzf
The first argument tldr --list
will generate a list of available commands enabled in your command line.
And when passing with a pipe operator |
it will send the results to fzf
.
Selecting an Argument with FZF
$ tldr --list | fzf | xargs tldr
As you did in the previous step, it will share the list to fzf
, and when you select an option it will send the argument via xargs
to execute with tldr
.
Previewing Commands on Searching
It creates a preview window, showing the results from TLDR and passing to the new window via xargs
.
Let's try with the following command:
$ tldr --list | fzf --preview "tldr {1}" --preview-window=right,60% | xargs tldr
Bonus: Aliasing
Create an alias to avoid remembering all this stuff:
alias tldrf='tldr --list | fzf --preview "tldr {1}" --preview-window=right,60% | xargs tldr'
Source your command line configuration file, in my case it is .zshrc
, and voilá!
Try your new alias into the command line:
$ tldrf