Hide or reorder fields in the list without changing the selected line.
Section: Core usage
Transform what is displayed
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bash
ps -ef | fzf --nth=1,8.. --with-nth=8..Explanation
Common for process pickers and tabular output.
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Select files from a pipeline
Pipe any list into fzf and interactively pick a line.
Open the selected file in an editor
Capture the selected value and open it with $EDITOR.
Use exact matching
Turn off fuzzy matching and only match the query literally.
Set a custom field delimiter
Parse colon- or tab-delimited input cleanly.