Fasdr

Fasdr (pronounced similar to "faster") is a command-line productivity booster for PowerShell. It supports quick access to leaf and container classes for PowerShell providers. Leaf and container paths are tracked and ranked based on frequency and date.

Introduction

Fasdr allows you to open files or change directories by accessing its database that it keeps of your history. Set-Frecent is used to jump between paths. You can even use tab completion to iterate through Fasdr's database. Here are some examples:

  j 'Files'         # cd 'c:\Program Files'
  jl 'notepad.exe'  # cd 'c:\Windows\System32'

j is aliased to Set-Frecent, which accepts leaves and containers. jl is aliased to Set-FrecentFromLeaf, which forwards to Set-Frecent; however, tab completion will filter only leaf paths.

Installation

Fasdr is available on the PowerShell Gallery. Note that it will hook into the current prompt and tab completion functions for proper support of word completion mode.

Fasdr has only been tested on PowerShell 5.0.

Matching

Fasdr has similar matching rules to Fasd. Exact matches between the search string and the last element of items stored in the database are returned first, followed by fuzzy matches.

Search Syntax

Fasdr's search syntax supports prefix, suffix, and current directory searches.

Token Example	Match type	Description
log.txt	fuzzy match	Items that exactly match or fuzzy match log.txt
=log.txt	exact match	Items that exactly match log.txt
^notepad	prefix exact match	Items that start with notepad
.cpp$	suffix exact match	Items that end with .cpp
**Documents	match against current working directory	Items that exist below the current working directory

Word Completion

Fasdr has special tokens that can be used for tab completion from any command.

Token Example	Match type	Description
:::Windows	containers and leaves	Items that contain Windows
c::Windows	containers only	Containers that contain Windows
l::txt	leaves only	Leaves that contain txt
d::Windows	directories only	Directories that contain Windows
f::txt	files only	Files that contain txt

Global Settings

Global settings can be set dynamically by accessing the global hashtable $global:Fasdr.

Setting	Description	Default Value
MaxResults	maximum results that Find-Frecent returns	50
MaxEntries	maximum number of entries saved in each provider database	10000

Reference/Inspiration

• https://github.com/clvv/fasd
• https://github.com/hugows/hf
• https://github.com/junegunn/fzf