It’s a TUI written in Rust and uses similar or the same libraries as rg, fd, fzf and bat, but in one package. There are no external dependencies and it comes for macOS, Linux and Windows in aarch64 and x86-64.

Currently srchr is not available via package managers, but there’s an installation script:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webcodr/srchr/main/install.sh | sh

I will also publish srchr on Homebrew, the AUR and perhaps some other package managers.

Beware, it’s still under development and the UI is functional, but not finished yet. At the moment there is just a hardcoded Tokyo Night inspired color theme, but this will also change in the near future.

srchr on GitHub

Update

It’s now available on Homebrew for macOS and Linux!

brew install webcodr/tap/srchr

I don’t know that stuff?

First things first. If you already know fd or the other tools from above, feel free to skip this section.

• fd is a more user-friendly replacement for find
• rg or ripgrep is grep on steroids, respecting git ignore files and skipping binaries or hidden files
• fzf is a command-line fuzzy finder. You basically can pipe everything into fzf and just type to filter the output
• bat is a modern version of cat with syntax highlighting and git integration

Say hi to rgp and fdp

function rgp
    set -l search_term $argv[1]

    if test -z "$search_term"
        echo "Usage: rgp <search_term>"

        return 1
    end

    rg -l $search_term | fzf --preview 'bat --color always {}' --bind 'enter:become("$EDITOR" {+})'
end

function fdp
    set -l search_term $argv[1]

    if test -z "$search_term"
        echo "Usage: fdp <search_term>"

        return 1
    end

    fd -tf $search_term | fzf --preview 'bat --color always {}' --bind 'enter:become("$EDITOR" {+})'
end

That’s all you need. Put them into your fish config file or the fish functions folder.

Usage

rgp something – this will use rg to recursively search the current directory for files with something inside. The result is piped into fzf. You can now filter the result further with fzf or select a file with the arrow keys and bat will give you a live preview of the file with syntax highlighting. Pressing enter will open the selected file with your default editor (environment variable EDITOR).

fdp works similarly, but looks for file names instead of the file content and also pipes the result to fzf for further filtering, preview or opening the selected file.

Don’t like fish? Here’s a version that works with bash or zsh.

Note: the local keyword is not POSIX-compliant. If you need that, just remove it, but this makes search_term global, so use with care.

rgp() {
    local search_term=$1

    if [ -z "$search_term" ]; then
        echo "Usage: rgp <search_term>"
        
        return 1
    fi

    rg -l "$search_term" | fzf --preview 'bat --color always {}' --bind 'enter:become("$EDITOR" {+})'
}

fdp() {
    local search_term=$1

    if [ -z "$search_term" ]; then
        echo "Usage: fdp <search_term>"
        
        return 1
    fi

    fd -tf "$search_term" | fzf --preview 'bat --color always {}' --bind 'enter:become("$EDITOR" {+})'
}