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Is there a simple file browser for searching a directory and opening a file?

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

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mariah@feddit.rocksOP
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I tried that but it searches the entire filesystem

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Wiener234@feddit.de
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You should be able to change directory to the one you want. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples#changing-directory

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