zimfw/modules/utility/README.md

utility

Utility aliases and functions.

Adds colour to ls, grep and less.

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 is short for ( aria2c || axel || wget || 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.

Misc

• mkcd creates and changes to the given directory.