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mieubrisse / cmdk

cmdk

Access any file on your computer with ⌘-K in your terminal

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4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
110GitHub stars
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Access any file on your computer with ⌘-K in your terminal

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2025-06-03 14:54:30 UTC to 2025-07-14 18:01:27 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122025-06-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJun 22025-06-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 232025-06-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 14

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Jul 72025-07-07 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC211
Jul 142025-07-14 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-21 00:00:00 UTC101

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Good question! This is complementary, not competitive, to the built-in fzf shortcuts. I use both cmdk and built-in fzf shortcuts in my day-to-day. The concrete value-adds of cmdk (what fzf doesn't do out of the box): 1. Smart previews. You have to write the fzf preview command to preview text files, directories, images, PDFs, etc. cmdk gives you this out of the box (see https://github.com/mieubrisse/cmdk/blob/main/preview.sh ). 2. Choose the command for you. If you rely on the fzf Ctrl-T shortcut, you have to type the `cd`, the `vim`, the `open`, etc. I find that most of the time the command is predictable based on the filetype, so cmdk allows you to skip this (see https://github.com/mieubrisse/cmdk/blob/9d742112dab0475d7420... ). When cmdk doesn't have a command for the filetype though, I supplement with fzf's Ctrl-T. 3. Be smart about w
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hich files you're searching to be performant. E.g. very likely users aren't going to jump to files in the "~/Library/Application Support", or certain system directories under "/", so give users the option to go to the parent directory without crawling the subdirectories (see https://github.com/mieubrisse/cmdk/blob/main/list-files.sh ).
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