/utility

Utility aliases and functions. Adds colour to ls, grep and less.

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utility

Utility aliases and functions.

Adds colour to ls, grep and less.

If file ${HOME}/.dir_colors exists, then its configuration will be set using dircolors (GNU only).

Aliases

ls

  • ls lists directories first (GNU only) and with colour (applies to all aliases below).
  • ll lists with long format and human-readable sizes (applies to all aliases below).
  • l lists all files.
  • lm lists all files using pager.
  • lr lists recursively.
  • lx lists sorted by extension (GNU only).
  • lk lists sorted by largest file size last.
  • lt lists sorted by newest modification time last.
  • lc lists sorted by newest status change (ctime) last.

File downloads

  • get downloads from the given URL using aria2c, axel, wget or curl.

Resource usage

  • df reports file system disk usage with human-readable sizes.
  • du reports file disk usage with human-readable sizes.

Condoms

  • chmod changes file mode verbosely, not operating from / (GNU only).
  • chown changes file owner verbosely, not operating from / (GNU only).
  • rm uses safe-rm if available.

Functions

  • mkcd creates and changes to the given directory.
  • mkpw generates a random password with the given length and set of characters. The default parameters are equivalent to mkpw 32 0-9A-Za-z.