panoplos / fish-shell-utility-functions

Compilation of some useful fish shell functions. Lots of shortcuts for common actions.

Fish Shell Utility Functions

Compilation of some useful fish shell functions. Lots of shortcuts for common actions.

Shell Prompt, Clear (for Konsole) & Sudo VIM

fish_prompt.fish Creates a clean, easy-on-the eyes prompt, as follows:

c: Used to clear the console and scroll buffer (needed on some terminal emulators like Konsole).

svim: Shortcut for sudo vim.

File System

golo: Shortcut for sudo su

f: Shortcut for find <dir: default='.'> | xargs grep <string> -

• Usage: f /usr/lib fish

cpmp: Copy file or directory (and sub dirs) to target and make parent directories if necessary.

• Usage: cpmp ~/mypic.png ~/Images/Me

mvmp: Move file or directory to target and make parent directories if necessary.

• Usage: mvmp ~/mydir ~/new/path/to/mydir
• Note: Adding a slash (/) to the end of the target will create a new dir of that name (if it doesn't exist) and copy the source to the new dir.

rmrf: Shortcut for rm -rf. Of course, use with caution!

z: Quick and smart archive handling (depends on dtrx)

• Usage: z [-opts] file.ext
  Extracts any archive with options acceptable to dtrx (see: dtrx --help)
  Example: z -vo test.tar.bz2
• z [-v] input [output]
  Compresses input file/directory, optionally verbosely, to output.tar.bz2. If output is omitted, it will create an archive with the name input.tar.bz2.
  Example: z -v test test2
  This will create a tar bz2 compressed archive name test2.tar.bz2

bu: Create a backup of item (file or directory) to item.bak.

sign: GPG Sign a text document, outputing result as <filename.ext>.signed

• Usage: sign filename.ext

String Manipulation

sedr: sed -E compliant in-place recursive regex replace.

• Usage: sedr [dir] regex
  Where dir is the top-level directory, is optional and defaults to CWD.
  Example: sedr testing s/foo/bar/g
  This will recurse the directory testing, replacing all instances of foo with bar.

Apt Shortcuts

search: Search for packages by keyword(s) in apt's cache.

• Usage: search fish | grep installed

show: Show package details.

ins: Install new package.

rem: Remove package(s). Supply only --auto to autoremove packages no longer needed.

Installation

Simply clone the repo locally and copy its contents into ~/.config/fish/functions.

You can also create ./config/fish/functions as a soft link that points to the git repo directory. This way you can pull down updates and have any updates additions reflected immediately.