fzf everything

Lately I have been using fzf, a cli fuzzy finder, for more and more things. There are a plethora of really complex examples, but I am more or less stuck at the stage where I write my own terminal helpers and shell scripts.

One of the motivation was to reduce complexity, I rather use a 4 line shell script than yet another full fledged go or rust slop tool. Below I am only showing the fzf part of the scripts, there is usually some ceremony around them e.g. wrapping it into a function.

dswitch

Directory switch. I have been using this handy little tool for years now. It allows you to hop into a dir in your filesystem quite easily.

selected=$(find ~/Documents ~/work -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | fzf)

aswitch

AWS context switch. I use aswitch to switch between aws profiles:

selected=$(aws configure list-profiles | fzf)

cswitch

(Kubernetes) Context switch (kswitch is taken apperently, maybe I should just overwrite it):

kubectl config get-contexts -o=name | fzf | xargs -r kubectl config use-context

Some would prefer to switch the kube-context always together with the aws context, quite a valid need, and easily doable with a simple shell script. Probably I will make cook up a script to do this.

It's a lot of fun making these pickers, I also have a script to delete multiple git branches in one go. I should make one for switching/working with git-worktrees as well!