last N days. N is an integer to be passed as first and only argument.
If no argument is specified N is set to 1.
-: **agoogle()**
-Searches for USENET postings from authors using google groups.
-
: **allulimit()**
Sets all ulimit values to "unlimited".
: **any()**
Lists processes matching given pattern.
-: **aoeu(), asdf(), uiae()**
-Pressing the 'asdf' keys toggles between dvorak or neon and us keyboard
-layout.
-
-: **apache2-ssl-certificate()**
-Advices the user how to create self signed certificates.
-
: **asc()**
Login on the host provided as argument using autossh. Then reattach a GNU screen
session if a detached session is around or detach a currently attached screen or
original name plus a time stamp attached. Symlinks and file attributes like mode,
ownership and timestamps are preserved.
-: **cdiff()**
-Runs a recursive diff(1) over two given directories trying to find the
-smallest set of changes. Three lines of context will be printed and binary
-files filtered out.
-
: **cdrecord()**
If the original cdrecord is not installed, issues a warning to the user to
use the wodim binary instead. Wodim is the debian fork of Joerg Schillings
Changes current directory to the one supplied by argument and lists the files
in it, including file names starting with ".".
-: **cvsa()**
-Adds and commits the given files using cvs(1). The commit message will be
-'initial checkin'.
-
-: **cvsd()**
-Shows a cvs diff of the arguments in $PAGER.
-
-: **cvsl()**
-Shows the cvs log in $PAGER.
-
-: **cvsq()**
-Runs a cvs update.
-
-: **cvsr()**
-Generates a changelog using rcs2log and shows it in $PAGER.
-
-: **cvss()**
-Shows cvs status of given files.
-
: **dchange()**
Shows the changelog of given package in $PAGER.
-: **debbug()**
-Searches the Debian bug tracking system (bugs.debian.org) for Bug numbers,
-email addresses of submitters or any string given on the command line.
-
-: **debbugm()**
-Shows bug report for debian given by number in mailbox format.
-
: **debian2hd()**
Tells the user to use grml-debootstrap, if she wants to install debian to
harddisk.
back interactive responsiveness after suspend, when the system is swapping
heavily.
-: **disassemble()**
-Translates C source code to assembly and ouputs both.
-
-: **dmoz()**
-Searches for the first argument (optional) in the Open Directory Project
-(See http://www.dmoz.org/docs/en/about.html).
-
: **dnews()**
Shows the NEWS file for the given package in $PAGER.
-: **doc()**
-Takes packagename as argument. Sets current working directory to
-/usr/share/doc/<packagename> and prints out a directory listing.
-
-: **dwicti()**
-Looks up the first argument (optional) in the german Wiktionary
-which is an online dictionary (See: http://de.wiktionary.org/).
-
: **edalias()**
Edit given alias.
: **edfunc()**
Edit given shell function.
-: **ewicti()**
-Looks up the first argument (optional in the english Wiktionary
-which is an online dictionary (See: http://en.wiktionary.org/).
-
-: **exirename()**
-Renames image files based on date/time informations in their exif headers.
-
-: **fir()**
-Opens given URL with Firefox (Iceweasel on Debian). If there is already an
-instance of firefox running, attaches to the first window found and opens the
-URL in a new tab (this even works across an ssh session).
-
: **freload()**
Reloads an autoloadable shell function (See autoload in zshbuiltins(1)).
-: **get_tw_cli()**
-Fetches 3ware RAID controller software using get_3ware(1).
-
-: **gex()**
-Performs an exact (i. e. quoted) web search using Google.
-
-: **ggogle()**
-Searches the arguments on Google Groups, a web to USENET gateway.
-
-: **google()**
-Searches the search engine Google using arguments as search string.
-
-: **hex()**
-Prints the hexadecimal representation of the number supplied as argument
-(base ten only).
-
: **hgdi()**
Use GNU diff with options -ubwd for mercurial.
: **hidiff()**
Outputs highlighted diff; needs highstring(1).
-: **ipv6-tunnel()**
-Sets up an IPv6 tunnel on interface sit1. Needs one argument -
-either "start", "stop" or "status".
-
: **is4()**
Returns true, if zsh version is equal or greater than 4, else false.
: **isutfenv()**
Returns true, if run within an utf environment, else false.
-: **iwclient()**
-Searches a wireless interface and runs dhclient(8) on it.
-
-: **limg()**
-Lists images (i. e. files ending with ".jpg", ".gif" or ".png") in current
-directory.
-
-: **makereadable()**
-Creates a PostScript and a PDF file (basename as first argument) from
-source code files.
-
-: **manzsh()**
-Shows the zshall manpage and jumps to the first match of the regular
-expression optionally given as argument (Needs qma(1)).
-
: **mcd()**
Creates directory including parent directories, if necessary. Then changes
current working directory to it.
-: **mdiff()**
-Diffs the two arguments recursively and writes the
-output (unified format) to a timestamped file.
-
-: **memusage()**
-Prints the summarized memory usage in bytes.
-
-: **mggogle()**
-Searches Google Groups for a USENET message-ID.
-
: **minimal-shell()**
Spawns a minimally set up MirBSD Korn shell. It references no files in /usr,
so that file system can be unmounted.
last N days. N is an integer to be passed as first and only argument.
If no argument is specified N is set to 1.
-: **netcraft()**
-Asks netcraft.com for informations about the site given as argument.
-
: **nt()**
A helper function for the "e" glob qualifier to list all files newer
than a reference file.
% ls -l *(e:'nt /reference/file':)
```
-: **oleo()**
-Translates the given word using the english - german online
-dictionary dict.leo.org.
-
-: **peval()**
-Evaluates a perl expression; useful as command line
-calculator, therefore also available as "calc".
-
: **profile()**
Runs a command in $SHELL with profiling enabled (See startup variable
ZSH_PROFILE_RC above).
: **refunc()**
Reloads functions given as parameters.
-: **regcheck()**
-Checks whether a regular expression (first parameter) matches a string
-(second parameter) using perl.
-
: **salias()**
Creates an alias whith sudo prepended, if $EUID is not zero. Run "salias -h"
for details. See also xunfunction() below.
-: **setenv()**
-Reimplementation of the csh(1) builtin setenv.
-
: **show-archive()**
Lists the contents of a (compressed) archive with the appropriate programs.
The choice is made along the filename extension.
-: **shtar()**
-Lists the content of a gzipped tar archive in default pager.
-
-: **shzip()**
-Shows the content of a zip archive in default pager.
-
: **simple-extract()**
Tries to uncompress/unpack given files with the appropriate programs. If an URI
starting with https, http or ftp is provided simple-extract tries to download
second argument, which denotes the compression/archive type as typical
filename extension; defaults to "tar.gz".
-: **sshot()**
-Creates directory named shots in user's home directory, if it does not yet
-exist and changes current working directory to it. Then sleeps 5 seconds,
-so you have plenty of time to switch desktops/windows. Then makes a screenshot
-of the current desktop. The result is stored in ~/shots to a timestamped
-jpg file.
-
: **ssl-cert-fingerprints**
Prints the SHA512, SHA256, SHA1 and MD5 digest of a x509 certificate.
First and only parameter must be a file containing a certificate. Use
% Restart ssh
```
-: **swiki()**
-Searches articles in the german Wikipedia for the term given as argument.
-
: **trans()**
Translates a word from german to english (-D) or vice versa (-E).
: **uchange()**
Shows upstreams changelog of a given package in $PAGER.
-: **udiff()**
-Makes a unified diff of the command line arguments trying hard to find a
-smaller set of changes. Descends recursively into subdirectories. Ignores
-hows some information about current status.
-
-: **uopen()**
-Downloads and displays a file using a suitable program for its
-Content-Type.
-
: **uprint()**
Works around the "print -l ${(u)foo}"-limitation on zsh older than 4.2.
Changes every occurrence of the string UTF-8 or utf-8 in environment
variables to iso885915.
-: **viless()**
-Vim as pager.
-
: **vim()**
Wrapper for vim(1). It tries to set the title and hands vim the environment
variable VIM_OPTIONS on the command line. So the user may define command
The first argument is the search pattern. The second and third ones are
optional and denote a search range (default: -100).
-: **wikide()**
-Looks up the argument on Wikipedia (german).
-
-: **wikien()**
-Looks up the argument on Wikipedia (english).
-
-: **wodeb()**
-Searches the list of official debian packages for the term given as
-first argument. The optional second argument denotes the distribution
-(stable, testing or unstable) and defaults to unstable.
-
: **xcat()**
Tries to cat(1) file(s) given as parameter(s). Always returns true.
See also xunfunction() below.
: **xunfunction()**
Removes the functions salias, xcat, xsource, xunfunction and zrcautoload.
-: **zg()**
-Search for patterns in grml's zshrc using perl. zg takes no or exactly one
-option plus a non empty pattern. Run zg without any arguments for a listing
-of available command line switches. For a zshrc not in /etc/zsh, set the
-GRML_ZSHRC environment variable.
-
: **zrcautoload()**
Wrapper around the autoload builtin. Loads the definitions of functions
from the file given as argument. Searches $fpath for the file. See also
/etc/apt/sources.list. An update should always be performed before an
upgrade or dist-upgrade; run by sudo, if necessary.
-: **calc** (//peval//)
-Evaluates a perl expression (see peval() above); useful as a command line
-calculator.
-
: **CH** (//./configure --help//)
Lists available compilation options for building program from source.
: **...** (//cd ../..///)
Changes current directory two levels higher.
-: **?** (//qma zshall//)
-Runs the grml script qma (quick manual access) to build the collected man
-pages for the z-shell. This compressed file is kept at
-~/man/zshall.txt.lzo Once it is built, the second use of the alias '?' is
-fast. See "man qma" for further information.
-
= AUXILIARY FILES =
This is a set of files, that - if they exist - can be used to customize the