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Comment by Scarbutt | Hacker News Reader

If you are saying you are OK with scanning the whole filesystem every time you are looking for something that can be anywhere under /

You can specify a target directory from which to start the search.

Bookmarks you mean. Yes, in nnn you can jump to the bookmark from anywhere and then press `Alt-O` (my preferred key) to start the search.

But you know what, let me share a smarter workflow:

  find . -iname "*.mp3" -print0 | nnn -p -

Now you list all yours mp3 files in nnn, examine/play them and finally get to cherry-pick some and print them to stdout when you quit nnn.

BTW, you can also run the find within nnn and list in nnn.

I see what you did there

If you're looking for something that can be anywhere under /, then the target directory needs to be /.

Yes, that's what I intended to convey.