useful add-ons

This is a collection of useful CLI utilities, which usually are not by default installed by GNU/Linux distributions.

fzf cli fuzzy finder

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. I didn’t find the usage of fzf straightforward. However, as it is a prerequisite for zoxide, I have it on my nmachine

Packages exist for several Linux distros and it available from the GitHub repo junegunn/fzf

zoxide: cd on steroids

z is cd on steroids. Once you z into a long path, it remembers the path. Next time you can z into the path by simply typing a part of the path. If several paths share the part of the path, it can display alternatives for interactive selection. With zi you can z into a path with fuzzy search, interactive selection included.

Packages exist for several Linux distros and it available from the GitHub repo ajeetdsouza/zoxide.

Requires fzf

For using z in Bash, add eval "$(zoxide init bash)" to the end of your Bash startup file (i.e., ~/.bashrc).