The shell scripts fuzzyfinders.bash and fuzzyfinders.zsh set up key bindings in Bash and ZSH to insert, at the cursor position, a fuzzily found

• command line of the history (by default bound to Ctrl-S),
• file path (by default bound to Ctrl-T), listing first the recently (in the last $DAYS_LAST_MODIFIED) modified files,
• the path of a subdirectory in the current directory (by default bound to Alt-C), listing first those recently changed to; uses either z.sh or z.lua, falls back to the in-built cdr in ZSH.

The file paths are listed among those inside the current working directory; in ZSH, optionally inside those after the path before the cursor position.

The fuzzy finder can be set by the variable $FUZZYFINDER and defaults, in this order, to the first fuzzy finder found among fzf, peco and fzy.

The functions _compgen_path (for files) and _compgen_dir (for directories) collect all paths and use by default the first file searcher among fd, ripgrep and ag, before falling back to the mandatorily present command find (on a UNIX system, according to the POSIX standard).

1. Save these scripts, say to ~/.config/sh, and mark them executable by

   mkdir ~/Downloads
   cd ~/Downloads
   git clone https://github.com/Konfekt/fuzzyfinders.sh
   mkdir --parents ~/.config/sh
   cp ~/Downloads/fuzzyfinders.sh/fuzzyfinders.{bash,zsh} ~/.config/sh
   chmod a+x ~/.config/sh/fuzzyfinders.{bash,zsh}

2. Source them on shell startup by adding to the shell configuration file

   • which is ~/.profile for Bash, the line

   . "$HOME/.config/sh/fuzzyfinders.bash"

   • respectively ~/.zshrc for ZSH, the line

   . "$HOME/.config/sh/fuzzyfinders.zsh"

3. To use the Ctrl-S binding, add [ -n "${TTY:-}" ] && stty -ixon <"$TTY" >"$TTY" to your ~/.bashrc respectively unsetopt FLOW_CONTROL to your .zshrc.

The fuzzy finder can be set by the variable $FUZZYFINDER and defaults, in this order, to whichever fuzzy finder among sk, fzf, peco and fzy is present. The number of days for a file to be considered recently modified can by set by the variable $DAYS_LAST_MODIFIED

The key bindings can be set by the first argument of the command bind (in Bash) respectively bindkey (in ZSH).

See vim-fuzzyfinders for the corresponding Vim plug-in.