lf is a TUI file manager. In its Wiki, you'll find a snippet to search with fzf and map it to a key.
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I second this. lf is basically ranger but you can integrate any shell commands or tools into it. It'll require a bit of setting up though as the defaults are bare bones.
Shell commands can easily be integrated into ranger.
Are you doing this via rifle? That was how I was doing it in ranger, but with lf you can make custom shell commands directly in the config and assign custom hotkeys to it.
In rc.conf put map f shell -tf $SHELL ~/myscript.sh. When you press f it will launch myscript.sh in a new terminal with the selection as an argument.
man ranger and check shell command for appropriate flags. For example, skip the -t if your script is in turn going to launch a GUI application.
Emacs find-file with vertico and orderless achieve this nicely.
Qt based file managers (PCManFM, Dolphin) usually have a filter input that's quite useful. It's limited to the current folder, and not a fuzzy finder, though.
Why not ape the Windows method of doing things?
Thunar + FSearch (both run natively)
Same as Clover + Explorer + Everything Search