Oh My Zsh Cheat Sheet

What's this Oh My Zsh?

Let's start with what Oh My Zsh is. Being a big fan of the Command Line Interface, I really hate using my computer mouse! This gave me a great motivation to search for awesome tools to enhance my User Experience on the Command Line. I came across Oh-My-Zsh during a hackathon I attended back in 2014. A friend of mine convinced me to use this shell because of its simplicity and adjustability. Also, the CLI is hackable and extendable with many plugins.

Contents

1. What's this Oh My Zsh?
2. Capabilities
3. Installation
   
   1. Using cURL
   2. Using wget
4. Commands
5. Aliases
   
   1. Alias Example
6. Tab-completion
7. Git
8. Editors
9. Symfony2
10. tmux
11. Systemd
    
    1. systemctl
12. Upgrade

Capabilities

This is a list of its capabilities:

• Command validation
• Spelling correction
• Sharing of command history among all running shells
• Command Line Themes (Agnoster, RobbyRussell, etc.)
• Directory history
• Startup / shutdown scripts via zshenv, zprofile, zshrc, zlogin, and zlogout
• Strong autocomplete capabilities. You can use the TAB key to navigate through the different options and use enter to select the right folder. Bash for example would print all the options. This is fairly spammy and pollutes your scrollback.
• Add plugins: e.g. Git plugin with a huge list of useful Git aliases.
• Display of active branch and visual feedback about your Git status:
  • Green: branch if no changes occurred
  • Yellow with a circle icon: untracked files
  • Yellow with a plus icon: files ready to be committed

Installation

This article isn't about the installation, so please refer to its original website for detailed installation guidance:.

Quick installation information is below here anyway:

Using cURL

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"  

Using wget

$ sh -c "$(wget https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh -O -)"

Commands

Command	Description
tabs	Create a new tab in the current directory (macOS - requires enabling access for assistive devices under System Preferences).
take	Create a new directory and change to it, will create intermediate directories as required.
x / extract	Extract an archive (supported types: tar.{bz2,gz,xz,lzma}, bz2, rar, gz, tar, tbz2, tgz, zip, Z, 7z).
zsh_stats	Get a list of the top 20 commands and how many times they have been run.
uninstall_oh_my_zsh	Uninstall Oh-my-zsh.
upgrade_oh_my_zsh	Upgrade Oh-my-zsh.
source ~/.zshrc	Uptake new changes

Aliases

Alias	Command
alias	list all aliases
..	cd ..
...	cd ../..
....	cd ../../..
.....	cd ../../../..
/	cd /
~	cd ~
cd +n	switch to directory number n
1	cd -
2	cd -2
3	cd -3
4	cd -4
5	cd -5
6	cd -6
7	cd -7
8	cd -8
9	cd -9
md	mkdir -p
rd	rmdir
d	dirs -v (lists last used directories)

See ~/.oh-my-zsh/lib/directories.zsh

Alias Example

alias -s rb=vim #opens ruby files in vim  
# $ foo.rb 
# vim => foo.rb
alias -g gp='| grep -i' #creates a global alias for grep  
# $ ps ax gp ruby
# (all ruby process will be displayed)

Flag	Description
L	print each alias in the form of calls to alias
g	list or define global aliases
m	print aliases matching specified pattern
r	list or define regular aliases
s	list or define suffix aliases

Tab-completion

For options and helpful text of what they do
ls -(tab)
cap (tab)
rake (tab)
ssh (tab)
sudo umount (tab)
kill (tab)
unrar (tab)

Git

Dynamic access to current branch name with the current_branch function
git pull origin $(current_branch)
grb publish $(current_branch) origin

Alias	Command
g	git
ga	git add
gaa	git add --all
gapa	git add --patch
gb	git branch
gba	git branch -a
gbd	git branch -d
gbl	git blame -b -w
gbnm	git branch --no-merged
gbr	git branch --remote
gbs	git bisect
gbsb	git bisect bad
gbsg	git bisect good
gbsr	git bisect reset
gbss	git bisect start
gc	git commit -v
gc!	git commit -v --amend
gca	git commit -v -a
gca!	git commit -v -a --amend
gcan!	git commit -v -a --no-edit --amend
gcans!	git commit -v -a -s --no-edit --amend
gcam	git commit -a -m
gcsm	git commit -s -m
gcb	git checkout -b
gcf	git config --list
gcl	git clone --recursive
gclean	git clean -fd
gpristine	git reset --hard && git clean -dfx
gcm	git checkout master
gcd	git checkout develop
gcmsg	git commit -m
gco	git checkout
gcount	git shortlog -sn
gcp	git cherry-pick
gcpa	git cherry-pick --abort
gcpc	git cherry-pick --continue
gcs	git commit -S
gd	git diff
gdca	git diff --cached
gdct	git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`
gdt	git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r
gdw	git diff --word-diff
gf	git fetch
gfa	git fetch --all --prune
gfo	git fetch origin
gg	git gui citool
gga	git gui citool --amend
ggpnp	git pull origin $(current_branch) && git push origin $(current_branch)
ggpull	git pull origin $(current_branch)
ggl	git pull origin $(current_branch)
ggpur	git pull --rebase origin $(current_branch)
glum	git pull upstream master
ggpush	git push origin $(current_branch)
ggp	git push origin $(current_branch)
ggfl	git push --force-with-lease origin <your_argument>/$(current_branch)
ggsup	git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/$(current_branch)
gpsup	git push --set-upstream origin $(current_branch)
gignore	git update-index --assume-unchanged
gignored	git ls-files -v &#124; grep "^\[\[:lower:\]\]"
git-svn-dcommit-push	git svn dcommit && git push github master:svntrunk
gk	gitk --all --branches
gl	git pull
glg	git log --stat --max-count = 10
glgg	git log --graph --max-count = 10
glgga	git log --graph --decorate --all
glo	git log --oneline --decorate --color
glog	git log --oneline --decorate --color --graph
glp	git_log_prettily (git log --pretty=$1)
gm	git merge
gmt	git mergetool --no-prompt
gp	git push
gpoat	git push origin --all && git push origin --tags
gr	git remote
grba	git rebase --abort
grbc	git rebase --continue
grbs	git rebase --skip
grbi	git rebase -i
grh	git reset HEAD
grhh	git reset HEAD --hard
grmv	git remote rename
grrm	git remote remove
grset	git remote set-url
grt	cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel &#124;&#124; echo ".")
grup	git remote update
grv	git remote -v
gsd	git svn dcommit
gsps	git show --pretty = short --show-signature
gsr	git svn rebase
gss	git status -s
gst	git status
gsta	git stash save
gstaa	git stash apply
gstd	git stash drop
gstl	git stash list
gstp	git stash pop
gsts	git stash show --text
gsu	git submodule update
gts	git tag -s
gunignore	git update-index --no-assume-unchanged
gunwip	git log -n 1 &#124; grep -q -c "\-\-wip\-\-" && git reset HEAD~1
gup	git pull --rebase
gvt	git verify-tag
gwch	git whatchanged -p --abbrev-commit --pretty = medium
gwip	git add -A; git ls-files --deleted -z &#124; xargs -r0 git rm; git commit -m "--wip--"

You also find these commands in Dash as a Cheat-sheet.

Editors

Alias	Command
stt	(When using sublime plugin) Open current directory in Sublime Text 2/3
v	(When using vi-mode plugin) Edit current command line in Vim

Symfony2

Alias	Command
sf	php ./app/console
sfcl	php app/console cache:clear
sfcontainer	sf debug:container
sfcw	sf cache:warmup
sfgb	sf generate:bundle
sfroute	sf debug:router
sfsr	sf server:run -vvv

tmux

Alias	Command
ta	tmux attach -t
tad	tmux attach -d -t
ts	tmux new-session -s
tl	tmux list-sessions
tksv	tmux kill-server
tkss	tmux kill-session -t

Systemd

systemctl

Command	Description
sc-status NAME	show the status of the NAME process
sc-show NAME	show the NAME systemd .service file
sc-start NAME	start the NAME process
sc-stop NAME	stop the NAME process
sc-restart NAME	restart the NAME process
sc-enable NAME	enable the NAME process to start at boot
sc-disable NAME	disable the NAME process at boot

Upgrade

To upgrade .oh-my-zsh, run:

upgrade_oh_my_zsh