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PathPicker accepts a wide range of input -- output from git commands, grep results, searches -- pretty much anything. After parsing the input, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in. After that you can open them in your favorite editor or execute arbitrary commands.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 5 stories, 6 comments · first 2015-05-07 · latest 2026-09-23

Mentions per year 11 mentions · busiest year 2015 (5)
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  1. ▲ 2
    Fpp – a utility to pick file paths out of command output
    story by Curiositry · 2026-09-23 · 0 comments
  2. …| fpp git status | fpp git diff head~1 | fpp And with Zsh suffixes you can even drop the pipe. https://github.com/facebook/PathPicker
    comment by bradly · 2024-12-24 · in Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it?
  3. ▲ 1
    PathPicker: A CLI tool that lets you select files out of bash output
    story by azeemba · 2023-10-14 · 0 comments
  4. ▲ 1
    PathPicker: A TUI to pick paths from stdin and run arbitrary commands on them
    story by gaws · 2023-03-23 · 0 comments
  5. ▲ 1
    PathPicker by Facebook
    story by bhzr · 2018-08-02 · 0 comments
  6. …instead of ripgrep. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher I use "fpp" instead of vgrep. https://github.com/facebook/PathPicker Anybody has tried them and has an opinion on which is better?
    comment by baby · 2017-10-08 · in Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to find, written in Rust
  7. Done. https://github.com/facebook/PathPicker/issues/63
    comment by iopuy · 2015-05-08 · in Facebook PathPicker
  8. https://github.com/facebook/PathPicker/blob/master/README.md...
    comment by pliny · 2015-05-08 · in Facebook PathPicker
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    PathPicker accepts many input-output from Git commands, grep results, searches
    story by binjoi · 2015-05-08 · 0 comments
  10. …hereunder will not terminate under section (i) of this paragraph due to such counterclaim. Source: https://github.com/facebook/PathPicker/blob/master/PATENTS See also the announcement of the change: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9356…
    comment by superuser2 · 2015-05-07 · in Facebook PathPicker
  11. …2.7 is installed). In the meantime you can try the manual installation method listed in the README: https://github.com/facebook/pathpicker/ @itsbits Why do you say that? curious if you found anything
    comment by xxbondsxx · 2015-05-07 · in Facebook PathPicker