How to specify root directory to search from

[wolfisberg]

I can't seem to figure out how I can tell fzf to start searching from another directory than the $PWD.

I have this alias

alias pdfind='fzf --preview-window=hidden -i -e -q ".pdf$ " | xargs -I {} okular {}'

And I'd like it configure it to start searching from either / or $HOME.

I'm sure there is an easy way to achieve this, but I couldn't find anything in the wiki or the man page.

Cheers.

[junegunn]

See https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#usage

[wolfisberg]

Apparently I didn't fully understand the way fzf is supposed to be used. I'm now piping fd output into fzf and provide the directory to fd.

[DinoChiesa]

@junegunn thanks for this wonderful , useful tool.

the link provided in this answer does not provide "usage". The document referenced there says I can use options like --walker and --walker-root but it does not describe those options, or their effects.

I needed to run fzf --help to understand that --walker-root specifies the directory from which fzf will search. The default is ..
I didn't see that in the fzf README on github. It's provided by the help command.

[junegunn]

The README page is not supposed to be a comprehensive reference for fzf. man fzf is. Listing all options of fzf on this single page would make it too long and intimidating for the new users.