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authorXiao Pan <gky44px1999@gmail.com>2024-05-27 01:48:03 -0700
committerXiao Pan <gky44px1999@gmail.com>2024-06-01 14:59:58 -0700
commit49a0d48ef87337bdfa6a3f65cf3a223f50dcd9ca (patch)
tree69405ea475498a513845234a7feb136cf41da216 /home/xyz/.profile
parenta6cdff2727767b580bb31e4af24e5be8425c7919 (diff)
fix: make fzf ctrl-t work in symlink dir
Diffstat (limited to 'home/xyz/.profile')
-rw-r--r--home/xyz/.profile5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/home/xyz/.profile b/home/xyz/.profile
index 90920243..3a807aae 100644
--- a/home/xyz/.profile
+++ b/home/xyz/.profile
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ export DOTREMINDERS="$HOME/programs/reminders/.reminders"
export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND="find . -mindepth 1 -path '*/\.git' -prune -o -print"
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/444551/get-absolute-path-of-files-using-find-command
# following two lines if use "" on the outermost, will not perfom expected, not sure why
-export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND='find "$PWD" -mindepth 1 -path "*/\.git" -prune -o -print'
+# use "$(pwd -P)" instead of "$PWD", else it will not work in symlink dir
+# -P to make it show realpath, another way is: "$(realpath .)", but I prefer pwd because it is shell builtin which maybe faster
+# or I can use find -L or -H (not sure about differences between the two), but I prefer realpath instead of symlink
+export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND='find "$(pwd -P)" -mindepth 1 -path "*/\.git" -prune -o -print'
#export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND='sudo find "$(pwd)" -path "*/\.git" -prune -o -print'
# ~+ is bashism
#export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND="sudo find ~+ -path '*/\.git' -prune -o -print"