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

• dl: download URL with either curl or wget as backend
• cfc: compressed file creation, shortcut for tar, 7z, zstd, etc.
• cfd: compressed file decompression
• 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
• zero-unused-space: fill 90% of free space with null-bytes
• create, create and edit boilerplate files of various types
• qcrypt, encrypt file or stream with password utilizing openssl or gpg
• 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)

Bundled shell integrations

Some terminals propagate custom shell integration scripts to enable advanced features like gathering what output belongs to which submitted command or marking prompts in their scroll history.

Included are:

• iterm2 (enabled by default, provides OSC 133 and OSC 1337 sequences)
• vscode (enabled when vscode is $TERM_PROGRAM, provides OSC 633 sequences)