Searz

Searz is an OS-agnostic package fuzzy finder i.e it provides a fuzzy finder interface for various package managers across different Linux distributions. It allows users to easily search, preview, and manage packages from the command line.

Features

• Supports multiple package managers: pacman, paru, yay, dnf, yum, and apt
• Uses fzf for a powerful and intuitive fuzzy finder interface
• Allows selection and deselection of multiple packages
• Automatically invokes sudo when necessary

Requirements

• fzf
• bash > 4.3

Installation

curl -o ~/.local/bin/searz https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vyogami/searz/main/searz
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/searz

Usage

Simply run the searz with the desired options. If no options are specified, it defaults to the install command for the detected package manager.

searz [OPTIONS]

Examples

• Firing up the fzf interface:

  searz

• Using a specific package manager (yay in this case):

  PKG_CMD=yay searz

Keybindings

• TAB: Select
• Shift+TAB: Deselect

Help

To see the help message, use:

searz -h

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request on GitHub.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.