prezto/modules/utility/README.md

Utility

Defines general aliases and functions.

Settings

Highlighting

If you have enabled color globally in zshrc, you may disable it for certain commands.

To disable ls color, add the following line to zshrc; when coloring is disabled, type indicators (*, /, =>, @, =, |, %) will be appended to entries.

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

To disable diff highlighting, add the following line to zshrc:

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

To disable wdiff highlighting, add the following line to zshrc:

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

To disable make highlighting, add the following line to zshrc:

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

Aliases

Disabled Spelling Correction

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

Disabled File Globbing

• fc
• find
• ftp
• history
• locate
• rake
• rsync
• scp
• sftp

General

• _ executes a command as another user (sudo).
• b opens the default web browser.
• cp copies files and directories interactively.
• e opens the default editor.
• ln links files and directories interactively.
• mkdir creates directories, including intermediary directories.
• mv moves files and directories interactively.
• 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).
• rm removes files and directories interactively.
• 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 (ls).

Mac OS X 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.
• du displays disk usage using human readable units.
• top displays information about processes (aliased to htop, if installed).
• topc displays information about processes sorted by CPU usage (htop not installed).
• topm displays information about processes sorted by RAM usage (htop not installed).

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.

Developer

• diff highlights diff output (requires colordiff or Git).
• 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