shell-pack

A fish shell environment with many quality of life improvements for sysadmins and devops.

tl;dr see the docs on how to install shell-pack.

Features

• vibrant colors, nice icons
• execution time, exit status and pipe status visibility
• background job execution time, exit status, PID visibility
• a cheat sheet for itself, cheat, and a test for your terminal, cheat --glyphs
• advanced directory navigation
  • shift-arrows or alt-arrows navigate history back, forward, dir up and dive with menu
  • alt-d or alias d jumps to bookmarks set with tagdir, untagdir
  • alt-c shows recursive change directory menu
• improved ctrl-r history navigation and deletion
• private mode alias private
• recursive search for filenames with alt-f
• tab / window title control with tag, untag, informative generated titles
• tmux shortcuts, including exclusive session one for shared access

Custom tools

• qssh, a frontend to ssh with enhanced fingerprint dialogue, multi connect and more (requires ssh)
• rrg (alt-g), an easy to use ripgrep file content search with preview
• ggit, quickly review changes, add files to the commit
• venv, activate / deactivate Python virtual env corresponding to current directory
• create, create and edit a file according to template (bash, fish, sh, systemd-service, systemd-mount, docker-compose, cron, desktop)
• Linux only
  • lsports: list open ports in compact manner
  • lsnet: list active network connections in compact manner
  • ddool: a dool wrapper with "sticky" arguments
  • qmount: mount a partition to /run/q/name (blockdevice autocomplete)
  • ssmart: shortcut to smartctl -x (skip /dev/)
  • qchroot: enter a Linux chroot, mounting all the necessities of modern Linux life
  • qqemu: start a disk or partition in a temporary VM without modifying the disk or network connectivity
  • @: ad-hoc atd replacement for executing commands at a given time as if typed into the prompt

Bundled tools

On first startup, these tools will be downloaded and installed into a dedicated directory if not readily available on the system. Each tool will be presented and permission for download will be asked for:

• rg (ripgrep)
• fzf (fuzzy finder)
• dool (dstat replacement)