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Zsh Commands

The following is a guide to the commands and aliases available after configuring your system with the Quiet Mind macOS Bootstrap.

Fuzzy Finder

fzf is an interactive filter program for any kind of list; files, command history, processes, hostnames, bookmarks, git commits, etc. It implements a "fuzzy" matching algorithm, so you can quickly type in patterns with omitted characters and still get the results you want.

Tto quit interactive modes you can use any of the following keyboard shortcuts:

  • Escape
  • CTRL + C
  • CTRL + Q

Built-in Shell Integrations

  • CTRL + R: fuzzy search shell history
  • CTRL + T: fuzzy-insert a file path into the current command
  • OPTION + C: fuzzy cd into a subdirectory
Note: To enable OPTION + C you'll need to set "Left option key" to "ESC+" under Settings > Profiles > Keys in iTerm.

Usage

Pipe the contents of a file to perform a fuzzy search of its contents:

bash
cat readme.md | fzf

Show a file browser with file content previews to the right side of the terminal:

bash
fzf --style full --preview 'fzf-preview.sh {}' --bind 'focus:transform-header:file --brief {}'
You can pipe the output from other commands to fzf as needed. 
bash
fd --type f --hidden --no-ignore | fzf | xargs open

Zoxide

zoxide is a smarter cd command. It remembers which directories you use most frequently, so you can "jump" to them in just a few keystrokes.
  • z <directory>
  • zi (use control-c to quit)

Aliases and Custom Functions

General

  • search: recursively search current directory, select a match with fuzzy search, and open it in nvim
  • livesearch: recursively perform a live search on the current directory
  • cl: clear the terminal output
  • cdc: change to the home directory and clear the terminal output
  • mkcd: make a new directory and change into the newly created directory
  • echopath: print out the paths in $PATH each on a new line
  • lc: copy the most recently run command to the clipboard

Git

  • pdev: check out the dev branch and pull the latest changes from the remote
  • pmain: check out the main branch and pull the latest changes from the remote
  • brclear: nuke all local branches except current, master, main, dev
  • brsync: delete local branches whose remote tracking branch no longer exists
  • gco: use fuzzy search to checkout a branch
  • stash: stash your current changes, including any untracked files
  • logdiff: show the full patch diff for every commit in the log
  • gitstats: shortcut to run git-quick-stats
  • lg: shortcut to run lazygit

Sync Repo

The syncrepo command runs git pull, git add, git commit, and git push. The command uses cfg (my dotfiles bare repo git command) instead of git when run in the home directory.

Developer Tools

  • json: maps to jq
  • yaml: maps to yq

Network

  • flushdns: flush the DNS cache and restart the DNS responder service
  • localip: show the local IP address

Zsh

  • reload: reload zsh
  • timezsh: benchmark zsh startup time

Add default flags to system commands

  • df: becomes df -h which outputs file system space usage in human-readable sizes in the power of 1024 (e.g. 1023M)
  • du: becomes du -ch which outputs a total disk usage in human-readable sizes in the power of 1024 (e.g. 1023M)
  • grep: becomes grep --color=auto which colorizes the output when stdout is a TTY
  • fgrep: becomes fgrep --color=auto which colorizes the output when stdout is a TTY
  • egrep: becomes egrep --color=auto which colorizes the output when stdout is a TTY
  • diff: becomes diff --color=auto which colorizes the output when stdout is a TTY
  • rg: becomes rg --smart-case which matches case-insensitively unless the pattern contains an uppercase letter, in which case it matches case-sensitively

Phoenix Window Manager

  • cdphoenix: change to the ~/.config/phoenix/ directory
  • logphoenix: change to the ~/.config/phoenix/ directory and tail the log file