How to Do a Fuzzy File Search in Linux

When looking for files on the Linux desktop; you may often rely on the search feature of your favourite file manager. The conventional searching approach is to apply an exact search; so that only files or directories that are a perfect match to the search string are displayed. 

A fuzzy search, on the other hand, performs an approximate search; and instead of identifying exact matches, displays matching results with each keystroke. The fzf utility identifies itself as a general-purpose fuzzy finder. Released under the MIT License, the cross-platform tool can be used across all flavours of Linux.

Installing fzf in Linux

The latest release, version 0.29.0, is offered only in the latest releases of distributions such as Fedora. Manjaro, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Ubuntu, Debian and Arch, while most others carry older versions in their repositories.

Get all the instructions here: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/fuzzy-search-linux