zero's zsh

Consists of a theme and a plugin. They can be used independently. Both have to be activated explicitly.

theme

• simple clean design
• support for git and hg repositories
• 256-color theme

Set theme to zero-dark if you have a dark terminal (white text on black background):

Set theme to zero-light if you have a light terminal (black text on white background):

If you want to quickly change the theme, use the plugin (see below). This will provide shortcut commands for theming:

dark_theme        # sets theme to zero-dark
light_theme       # sets theme to zero-light

There are also theme-related commands:

zsh_reload_theme             # quickly reload zsh
zsh_load_theme "zero-dark"   # load a theme, eg this theme

References:

• prose theme + guide (see: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/02/my-extravagant-zsh-prompt/)
• the many preexisting themes (see: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/tree/master/themes)

plugin

Please see plugins/zero/zero.plugin.zsh. All changes are well documented.

Short reference:

• quickly go to root folder of git repository

    cdgit
  

• grep all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses also works in global style via ,g_ip, ,g_ip4, ,g_ip6

    grep_ip nmap_output.txt
    grep_ip4 nmap_output.txt
    grep_ip6 nmap_output.txt
    nmap 192.168.0.0/24 ,g_ip4
  

• if they are installed, use advcp utilities (coreutils' cp and mv with progress bar)

    cp -rv a /to/b                 # /usr/bin/acp -g  -rv a /to/b
    mv -v a /to/b                  # /usr/bin/amv -g  -v a /to/b
  

• simple shorthands

    l                              # ls
    l1                             # ls -1
    ll                             # ls -lha
    sl                             # ls
    ..                             # cd ../
    .....                          # cd ../../../../
  

• global aliases for less

    cat huge.txt ,l                # cat huge.txt  | less
    ./stdout+stderr.sh ,la         # ./stdout+stderr.sh 2>&1 | less"
  

• global aliases for grep

    cat my.html ,g "<h3" ,g "id="  # cat my.html  | grep  "<h3"  | grep  "id="
    cat all.log ,gv ignore_me      # cat all.log  | grep --invert-match  ignore_me
    cat ALLCAPS ,gi noncaps        # cat ALLCAPS  | grep --ignore-case  noncaps
    cat CAPS.log ,giv ignore       # cat CAPS.log  | grep --ignore-case --invert-match  ignore
    cat my.html ,go "href=[^ ]*"   # cat my.html  | grep --only  "href=[^ ]*"
  

• global aliases for sort

    ls -1 ,s                       # ls -1  | sort
    cat lines ,sr                  # cat lines  | sort --reverse
    du -hs * ,sh                   # du -hs *  | sort --human-numeric-sort
    du -hs * ,shr                  # du -hs *  | sort --human-numeric-sort --reverse
  

• global aliases for wc (counting)

    ls -1 ,count                   # ls -1  | wc --lines
    ls -1 ,cl                      # ls -1  | wc --lines
    cat essay.txt ,cw              # cat essay.txt  | wc --words
    cat my.bin ,cb                 # cat my.bin  | wc --bytes
  

• other global aliases

    ./run.daemon ,nul              # ./run.daemon > /dev/null 2>&1
  

Requirments

• zsh
• oh-my-zsh

Installation

Installation in home directory of current user:

./install.sh

Now edit ~/.zshrc and:

# set zero-dark or zero-light as the theme
ZSH_THEME="zero-dark"

# add zero to the list of plugins
plugins=(git zero)

Reload your zsh and you are ready to go.