fzf - The Fuzzy Finder

April 12, 2026 | Reading Time: 3 min

I think this one’s a game changer for terminal users. FZF is a fuzzy finder for any kind of list, so in other words can help you to filter a list to items similar but not exactly the same as what you’re searching for. Very significantly, this also means you can search any part of the list of things that you’re searching through for your query string. Here are the two big problems that I think this solves: