utility

Utility

Defines general aliases and functions.

Settings

Highlighting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To disable make highlighting, add the following line to 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

Disabled File Globbing

• bower
• 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 or t displays all the attribute values of a shell parameter.
• w3md opens markdown as HTML in w3m.

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).
• cl clears the screen before listing in one column.
• lsd lists hidden files only.
• lss lists symbolic links only.
• lsmod lists numerical permissions.

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).
• vv pastes from the pasteboard anywhere in a command ($(pbp)).
• cpy copies to the pasteboard without line endings (pbcopy).
• pubkey copies the current user's public key to the pasteboard.

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.
• sha1 prints the SHA1 hash of a passed file.
• rel reloads the default shell.
• pp lists open files.

Functions

General

• slit prints columns 1, 2, 3 ... n.
• c clear the screen with scissors symbols (✂).
• ytgif converts YouTube to GIF.

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.
• fs search files in directory for a string.
• mkcd 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.
• treep pipe tree output into the less pager.
• buf back up a file using the date.

Developer

• diff highlights diff output (requires colordiff or Git).
• make highlights make output (requires colormake).
• sprunge sends shell output to http://sprunge.us and generates a link.
• 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
• Joel Kuzmarski