searcher

searcher

Easily search and enter shell of any valid package provider!

Nixpkgs searching script with fzf. Lets you easily search and enter shell of a package without having to look it up on nixpkgs search.

Usage

Depending on your system:

nix run github:xav-ie/dots#packages.x86_64-linux.searcher
nix run github:xav-ie/dots#packages.aarch64-darwin.searcher

This will search all of nixpkgs and output fzf list of all of them. Hitting enter on a result will enter you into a shell of that package.

searcher

This will search all of nixpkgs with your query and output fzf list of all of them. Hitting enter on a result will enter you into a shell of that package.

searcher query_without_spaces

This will search all of nixpkgs with your query and output fzf list of all of them. Hitting enter on a result will enter you into a shell of that package.

searcher nixpkgs query with spaces

Basically, to use spaces in your search, you need to specify where to search. You can search other places too:

searcher nixpkgs/21.05 query with spaces

Installation

I recommend adding this to your NixOS flake if you want to use this long term:

# ...
inputs = {
  xav-ie.url = "github:xav-ie/dots";
};
# ...

Then, in your zsh’s `initExtra` code:

# ...
pkgs = with pkgs; [
  # ...
  # ...
  # ...
] ++ [
  inputs.xav-ie.packages.${pkgs.system}.zellij-tab-name-update
];
# ...

This is untested, so please open issue if you have problems!