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

submitted 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I tried that but it searches the entire filesystem

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

You can change the directory.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I know a few terminal-based file managers but I don't think those will help solve your problem. I recommend you to somehow port ( I don't see why rofi doesn't work on your debian tho ) rofi onto debian so that you can keep on your workflow.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

This is the error Screenshot_20231102-093004

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm completely not sure, but did you clone the repository with recursive flag?

It's presumably related to your includePath or something.

P.S. I think I've figured out:

You need to have rofi ^1.6.1 installed on your system.

https://github.com/marvinkreis/rofi-file-browser-extended#dependencies