fzf: FZF is broken on Termux with fish shell due to findutils v.4.9.0

Updated my fish on termux after that FZF don’t work, when type ‘fzf’ i get this error

[Command failed: set -o pipefail; command find -L . -mindepth 1 ( -path ‘/.’ -o -fstype ‘sysfs’ -o -fstype ‘devfs’ -o -fstype ‘devtmpfs’ -o -fstype ‘proc’ ) -prune -o -type f -print -o -type l -print 2> /dev/null | cut -b3-]

Edit: updated for correct code without " ".

Edit 2: in later discovery, it was not fish that was the issue, it was findutils 4.9.0 that also got updated in the same time and was the culprit to this error.

After findutils 4.9.0-1 everything works as intended.

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Created 2 years ago
Comments: 26 (3 by maintainers)

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FYI: I opened a termux-packages findutils issue: termux/termux-packages#9506

gustav-b on Mar 21, 2022

Can confirm, FZF is now working in fish again with default settings. Thanks for the heads-up about the 4.9.0-1 update.

Great! Maybe the issue title should be updated to reflect that this was an issue with Termux findutils package 4.9.0 and not related to the shell?

Sorry, my mistake but yes of course.

Dan1jel on Mar 25, 2022

hmm. Well, I also run fish (git/ pre-3.5) and don’t run termux, so I suppose I could check that.

At the moment bin/fzf-tmux line 186 looks suspicious: [[ -n "$FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND" ]] && envs="$envs FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND=$(printf %q "$FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND")". I suspect ‘printf %q’ is a bash extension which quotes a string in a way appropriate to the bash shell. I think bash doesn’t interpret ’ ( ', but fish does. Adding some sed s/ to this line to ensure that parentheses are single-quoted might be what is needed.

0ion9 on Mar 20, 2022