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Is there a simple file browser for searching a directory and opening a file? (feddit.rocks)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I download my music videos and shuffle them in mpv. Sometimes i want a certain song so i want like a hotkey to open ~/Music\ Videos/ and search for a file. I used rofi file browser extended from the aur but i cant get it to compile on debian

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) 
#!/bin/bash

video_directory="~/Music Videos/ "

while true; do
  read -p "Enter music video: " prompt

  find "$video_directory" -type f -name "*$prompt*" -exec umpv  {} \;
done

umpv:

https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/TOOLS/umpv

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