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Is there a simple file browser for searching a directory and opening a file? (feddit.rocks)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I download my music videos and shuffle them in mpv. Sometimes i want a certain song so i want like a hotkey to open ~/Music\ Videos/ and search for a file. I used rofi file browser extended from the aur but i cant get it to compile on debian

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fzf is a great tool for this job. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I tried that but it searches the entire filesystem

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You should be able to change directory to the one you want. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples#changing-directory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can change the directory.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Fsearch, Recommended by Linux Format Magazine in their November 2023 series.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

#!/bin/bash

video_directory="~/Music Videos/ "

while true; do
  read -p "Enter music video: " prompt

  find "$video_directory" -type f -name "*$prompt*" -exec umpv  {} \;
done

umpv:

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/TOOLS/umpv