PathExtractor (pe)

PathExtractor is a command line tool that extracts a list of files/paths from stdin.

Advantages over fpp:

• It does only one thing : more unixy
• You can use it with any fuzzy finder, such as fzf,peco,percol,pick,selecta
• It doesn't wait for stdin to be finished to output the paths
• It is faster
• It is much smaller (easily understandable)
• You can also use it without a fuzzy finder for programmatic usage

For example, you could write:

git status | pe

to get a list of the files that were added/changed, without all the formating

One of the most common usage is to create an alias that will automatically run :

pe + a command line fuzzy finder such as fzf + an action such as opening that file in your favorite editor.

For example, using zsh , I have as an alias:

alias -g P='| pe | fzf | read filename; [ ! -z $filename ] && vim $filename'

With bash:

bind '"PP": "| pe | uniq | fzf | while read filename; do [ ! -z $filename ] && </dev/tty vim $filename; done\n'

So that If I run

git status P

or

git status PP

to quickly open one of the changed files in vim

Other usage ideas:

With zsh:

# Copy selected path to clipboard
alias -g C='| pe | fzf | read filename; [ ! -z $filename ] && echo -n $filename | xclip -selection c'

With bash:

bind '"CC": "| pe | fzf | read filename; [ ! -z $filename ] && echo -n $filename | xclip -selection c\n"'

Installation

go install github.com/edi9999/path-extractor@latest
# sudo mv "$(which path-extractor)" /usr/bin/pe

You will have the path-extractor in your $GOPATH/bin directory which you can rename or alias to pe