halostatue/fish-utils

Utility functions for fish shell. Most have been ported from my zsh dotfiles.

Installation

Install with Fisher (recommended):

fisher install halostatue/fish-utils-core halostatue/fish-utils

Not using a package manager?

Copy functions/*.fish to your fish configuration directory preserving the directory structure.

System Requirements

fish 3.0+

Functions

`clone-tree SOURCE TARGET [OPTIONS]

Clones the entire directory structure of a SOURCE directory into another, using tar with pipes. If TARGET does not exist, it will be created.

clone-tree source target

Options

-p, --progress: Enables the display of a progress bar. If pv is not available, acts the same as --verbose. Mutually exclusive with --verbose.
-v, --verbose: Shows a verbose extract display. Mutually exclusive with --verbose.
-k, --keep-root: If provided, keeps the source directory as the root of the target files. That is, clone-tree --keep-root SOURCE TARGET will produce the output of TARGET/(basename SOURCE)/....

`color_test [--list[=SCALE]]`

Displays either a color test list or a color test grid. If the list

dataurl

Creates a data-url base64 encoded value of the file.

dataurl image.jpg | pbcopy

latest_modified_file

Given a list of files, returns the file that was most recently updated by mtime. Because of limitations of fish, it is not possible to pass wildcards that have no match to this function without first assigning them to a variable.

echo (latest_modified_file Rakefile Gemfile) # Rakefile
set -l files Rakefile lib/tasks/*.rake
echo (latest_modified_file $files) # lib/tasks/test.rake

max, min

Prints the maximum value from the provided list.

The comparison must be done on numeric values, but comparisons can be done with the --using option to specify a program and arguments to run against the provided list.

$ max 31 25 92 32
92
$ min 31 25 92 32
25
$ max --using 'path mtime' *.md
CHANGELOG.md
$ max --using 'path mtime' *.md
LICENCE.md

Option

-u, --using: A string representing the command to be run to get a numeric value for comparison.

md5pwd

Creates an MD5 hash for the current working directory.

mess

Creates a working 'mess' directory where new things may be played with.

pidwd

Prints the current working directory of the provided PID.

test (pidwd %self) = $PWD; and echo Works

rot13

A simpl{e,istic} Caesar cipher.

echo N fvzcyr Pnrfne pvcure. | rot13

urlencode

URL encodes the provided string.

License

MIT