not working on macOS (find: -printf: unknown primary or operator)

[fegyi001]

Info

• Operating System: MacOS Ventura 13.0
• Shell:
• Terminal: iTerm2
• nvim --version: v0.8.0
• fzf --version: 0.34.0 (installed via homebrew)

• [] The issue is reproducible with mini.sh

fzf-lua configuration

```lua require('fzf-lua').setup({ }) ```

Description

I'm on Mac, and the fuzzy finder does not work at all. It cannot find the -printf option for find (it does not exist for find on Mac). I see the following screen:

find: -printf: unknown primary or operator

I use a basic setup of fzf-lua. I'm quite new to nvim.

[ibhagwan]

It seems you don’t have rg or fd installed, in this case fzf-lua defaults to find and the default opts for fine use printf which requires GNU find.

Either install rg or fd or modify the default find options in setup:

check the below command works in your shell first

require('fzf-lua').setup({
files = { cmd = 'find -type f' }
})

[fegyi001]

Wow, it works now. It is blazingly fast also for big projects (compared to Telescope), thanks a lot!

[ibhagwan]

Wow, it works now. It is blazingly fast also for big projects (compared to Telescope), thanks a lot!

Glad you like it, if you haven’t installed rg yet I highly recommend it, should boost up the performance of both files and grep providers, you can also disable file and git icons to squeeze a bit more performance if you wish.