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".
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.
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).
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':)
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-: **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".
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
% Restart ssh
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-: **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.
-
: **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.