prezto/modules/utility

Utility

Defines general aliases and functions.

This module must be loaded before the completion module so that the provided completion definitions are loaded automatically by completion module.

Note: Some of the utilities configured in this module might be provided via GNU utilities with incompatible arguments on non-GNU systems. In such cases, using gnu-utility module is recommended and it must be loaded before this module.

To elaborate, the relative order of loading the modules would be gnu-utility, utility and completion.

Settings

Highlighting

If you have enabled color globally in ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zpreztorc, you may disable it selectively for certain commands.

To disable ls color, add the following to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zpreztorc. When coloring is disabled, type indicators (\*, /, =>, @, =, |, %) will be appended to entries.

zstyle ':prezto:module:utility:ls' color 'no'

To disable GNU coreutils ls to list directories grouped first, add the following line to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zpreztorc:

zstyle ':prezto:module:utility:ls' dirs-first 'no'

To disable grep highlighting, add the following line to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zpreztorc:

zstyle ':prezto:module:utility:grep' color 'no'

To disable diff highlighting, add the following line to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zpreztorc:

zstyle ':prezto:module:utility:diff' color 'no'

To disable wdiff highlighting, add the following line to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zpreztorc:

zstyle ':prezto:module:utility:wdiff' color 'no'

To disable make highlighting, add the following line to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zpreztorc:

zstyle ':prezto:module:utility:make' color 'no'

Aliases

Disabled Spelling Correction

• ack
• cd
• cp
• ebuild
• gcc
• gist
• grep
• heroku
• ln
• man
• mkdir
• mv
• mysql
• rm

To disable all spelling corrections, add the following line to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zpreztorc:

zstyle ':prezto:module:utility' correct 'no'

Disabled File Globbing

• bower
• fc
• find
• ftp
• history
• locate
• rake
• rsync (selectively enabled for local files)
• scp (selectively enabled for local files)
• sftp

General

• _ executes a command as another user (sudo).
• b opens the default web browser.
• diffu shorthand for diff --unified
• e opens the default editor.
• mkdir creates directories, including intermediary directories.
• p opens the default pager.
• po removes a directory from the stack and changes to it (popd).
• pu changes the directory and pushes the old directory onto the stack (pushd).
• sa search aliases for a word.
• type displays all the attribute values of a shell parameter.

Files and Directories

• ls lists with directories grouped first (GNU only).
• l lists in one column, hidden files.
• ll lists human readable sizes.
• lr lists human readable sizes, recursively.
• la lists human readable sizes, hidden files.
• lm lists human readable sizes, hidden files through pager.
• lx lists sorted by extension (GNU only).
• lk lists sorted by size, largest last.
• lt lists sorted by date, most recent last.
• lc lists sorted by date, most recent last, shows change time.
• lu lists sorted by date, most recent last, shows access time.
• sl lists directory contents (correction for ls).

macOS Everywhere

• o opens files and directories (open or xdg-open).
• get downloads files (curl or wget).
• pbcopy copies to the pasteboard (pbcopy, xclip or xsel).
• pbpaste pastes from the pasteboard (pbcopy, xclip or xsel).
• pbc copies to the pasteboard (pbcopy).
• pbp pastes from the pasteboard (pbpaste).

Resource Usage

• df displays free disk space using human readable units (aliases to pydf, if installed).
• du displays disk usage using human readable units.
• top displays information about processes.
• topc displays information about processes sorted by CPU usage.
• topm displays information about processes sorted by RAM usage.

Safe ops

By default, cp,ln, mv and rm are aliased to their interactive variants. If this is not desired, it can be disabled by adding the following line to ${ZDOTDIR:-$HOME}/.zpreztorc:

zstyle ':prezto:module:utility' safe-ops 'no'.

In addition, the following aliases have been added:

• cpi copies files and directories interactively.
• lni links files and directories interactively.
• mvi moves files and directories interactively.
• rmi removes files and directories interactively.

Miscellaneous

• http-serve serves a directory via HTTP.

Functions

General

• slit prints columns 1, 2, 3 ... n.

Files and Directories

• cdls changes to a directory and lists its contents.
• dut displays the grand total disk usage using human readable units.
• find-exec finds files and executes a command on them.
• mkdcd makes a directory and changes to it.
• popdls pops an entry off the directory stack and lists its contents.
• pushdls pushes an entry onto the directory stack and lists its contents.
• noremoteglob enable local path globbing but disable remote path globbing.

Developer

• diff highlights diff output (requires colordiff).
• make highlights make output (requires colormake).
• wdiff highlights wdiff output (requires wdiff or git).

Resource usage

• psu displays user owned processes status.

Search and Replace

• prep provides a grep-like pattern search.
• psub provides a sed-like pattern substitution.

Authors

The authors of this module should be contacted via the issue tracker.

• Robby Russell
• Suraj N. Kurapati
• Sorin Ionescu