https://github.com/purarue/fzfcache
A small cache for unique lines of text, used to speedup the 'time to select' of expensive fzf invocations
https://github.com/purarue/fzfcache
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A small cache for unique lines of text, used to speedup the 'time to select' of expensive fzf invocations
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/purarue/fzfcache
- Owner: purarue
- License: mit
- Created: 2022-03-01T08:22:33.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-10-27T20:03:25.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-08T23:34:05.733Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: cache, fzf, fzf-scripts
- Language: Go
- Homepage:
- Size: 6.38 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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## fzfcache
A small cache for unique lines of text, used to speedup the load time of expensive [fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf) invocations
Given any shell command as positional arguments:
- If that command has been run in the past (determined by hashing the command itself), immediately prints the cached value -- this means you can immediately select something with `fzf`
- Prints any lines from that shell command to STDOUT, which haven't already been printed from the cachefile, removing any duplicates
- Once the shell command exits, saves the output of the shell command to a file in `~/.cache/fzfcache/`
This keeps a history of one command, so its possible that lines from the previous result are included in the current `fzf` buffer/cachefile. So, if exact results are very important every time this is run, this probably isn't for you.
As an example:
As some other examples of me using this:
- [cache food items](https://github.com/purarue/ttally#shell-scripts) (in [`cz`](https://github.com/purarue/ttally/blob/master/bin/cz))
- jump to directories I use often in [`cd.zsh`](https://purarue.xyz/d/cd.zsh?dark)
- pick a [config file to edit](https://github.com/purarue/dotfiles/blob/2c579f32e6c3a5d42736816e4d38e0a409a847e4/.config/shortcuts.toml#L5-L21)
- pick a [config file to send to someone](https://purarue.xyz/d/give?dark)
- search my [github stars](https://purarue.xyz/d/mystarsfzf?dark)
### Install
Using `go install` to put it on your `$GOBIN`:
`go install github.com/purarue/fzfcache@latest`
```
usage: fzfcache [-h]
Caches the input from the shell command and/or prints the cached results
This is typically piped into fzf, to decrease the time till interactive
```