Getting Started # Understanding fzf # Basically, you can think of fzf as an interactive version of “grep” (with bells and whistles, lots of bells and whistles). You feed lines of text to fzf via standard input, fzf starts an interactive terminal interface where you can narrow down the list using fuzzy matching algorithm. And when you finally make a selection, fzf prints it out to standard output. I n p u t l i n e s S T D I N f z 👀 f S T D O U T O u t p u t l i n e ( s ) What I’m trying to say here is that fzf is essentially a text filter; it’s up to you to provide the input list, and it’s up to you to do something with the filtered output.