Garuda Fish CheatSheet

Garuda Fish Aliases

Here are some common Garuda aliases that will make your fish shell experience a little smoother. The defaults live in /usr/share/garuda/garuda-fish-config/config.fish. Your own ~/.config/fish/config.fish sources them, so add your changes there.

Listing files

These replace ls with eza and cat with bat.

Command	Alias/Shortcut	Purpose
eza -al --group-directories-first	ls	Long listing with hidden files, folders first
eza -al --total-size --group-directories-first	lsz	Same as ls, with folder sizes
eza -a --group-directories-first	la	All files and directories
eza -l --group-directories-first	ll	Long format
eza -aT --group-directories-first	lt	Tree listing
eza -ald --group-directories-first .*	l.	Show only dotfiles
bat --style header,snip,changes	cat	Show files with syntax highlighting and git change markers
paru	yay	Only set when yay is missing and paru is installed

New to Arch From Debian

Command	Alias/Shortcut	Purpose
man pacman	apt	Now you can learn about pacman
man pacman	apt-get	Now you can learn about pacman
sudo	please	Please give me root
nc termbin.com 9999	tb	A command line pastebin for you
echo "To print basic information about a command use tldr <command>"	helpme	Tldr will teach you to use a command
sudo -H DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff	pacdiff	compare .pacnew and .pacsave files with the installed config files (pacman-contrib)
journalctl -p 3 -xb	jctl	View logs of the current boot, priority error and above
expac --timefmt="%Y-%m-%d %T" "%l\t%n %v" | sort | tail -200 | nl	rip	Show the 200 most recently installed packages

Navigation

Instead of typing the whole cd /path command to move back a directory, you can just substitute with . the number of times you would love to go back.

Command	Alias/Shortcut
cd ..	..
cd ../..	...
cd ../../..	....
cd ../../../..	.....
cd ../../../../..	......

Helpful Commands

This includes system commands, or common commands but modified in a way to make life much easier for a garuda user.

Command	Alias/Shortcut	Purpose
expac -H M "%m\t%n" | sort -h | nl	big	Sort installed packages according to size
sudo rm /var/lib/pacman/db.lck	fixpacman	Remove lock from database to enable install
dir --color=auto	dir	List directories in color
pacman -Q | grep -i "\-git" | wc -l	gitpkg	Count the installed -git packages
ugrep --color=auto	grep	Appealing visuals of grep
ugrep -E --color=auto	egrep	Appealing visuals of egrep
ugrep -F --color=auto	fgrep	Appealing visuals of ugrep
sudo update-grub	grubup	Regenerate the GRUB config
hwinfo --short	hw	Show hardware info
ip -color	ip	Show your ip but in color
ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4	psmem	Show processes sorted by memory usage
ps auxf | sort -nr -k 4 | head -10	psmem10	Top 10 processes by memory usage
sudo pacman -Rdd	rmpkg	Remove a package without checking dependencies
tar -acf	tarnow	Create compressed archive file
tar -zxvf	untar	Unzip tar archive
garuda-update	upd	Update garuda linux
vdir --color=auto	vdir	List directories in color, long format
wget -c	wget	Continue downloading even when forgetting -c

Easiest Way to Deal with mirrors

Command	Alias/Shortcut	Purpose
sudo reflector -f 30 -l 30 --number 10 --verbose --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist	mirror	Update your mirror list by choosing fastest recent mirror
sudo reflector --latest 50 --number 20 --sort age --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist	mirrora	Update by selecting 20 most recent mirrors
sudo reflector --latest 50 --number 20 --sort delay --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist	mirrord	Update your mirror based on delay
sudo reflector --latest 50 --number 20 --sort score --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist	mirrors	20 best mirrors based on their score

Functions

Command	Purpose
history	Show the fish history with date and time
backup FILE	Copy FILE to FILE.bak
copy SRC DEST	Copy a folder recursively when SRC is a folder, otherwise a normal cp
cleanup	Remove orphaned packages with sudo pacman -R until none are left
gitg	Typo fix, runs git gui

Shortcuts

Keys	Purpose
!!	Replace it with the previous command
! then $	Recall the last argument of an earlier command (from the bang-bang plugin)

Shell behavior

• fastfetch on every new terminal: the config.fish in your home folder calls __garuda_fastfetch. It runs mokka.jsonc, then dr460nized.jsonc, then neofetch.jsonc, depending on what is installed. Comment out that last line to turn it off.
• done: the upstream done plugin is shipped. It sends a notification when a long command finishes.
• garuda-update hook: typing sudo pacman -Syu asks if you want garuda-update instead. y runs it, N continues with pacman, and i stops the question for good.

Orphan packages

cleanup removes orphans in a loop until none are left, so it already handles orphans that only appear after the first removal. Before you run it, check what still refers to each orphan. The functions below read the pacman -Qi fields for every orphan from pacman -Qdtq.

function __orphan_field --argument orphan field
    pacman -Qi $orphan | awk -v f="$field" '
      $0 ~ "^" f " *:" { on = 1; sub(/^[^:]*: */, "") }
      /^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z ]* *:/ && $0 !~ "^" f " *:" { on = 0 }
      on { gsub(/^ +/, ""); printf "%s ", $0 }'
end

function check-orphan-dependents --description 'Show what requires or optionally uses each orphan'
    set -l orphans (pacman -Qdtq)

    if test -z "$orphans"
      echo "No orphan packages found."
      return
    end

    for orphan in $orphans
      echo "$orphan"
      echo "  Required by:  "(__orphan_field $orphan 'Required By')
      echo "  Optional for: "(__orphan_field $orphan 'Optional For')
    end
end

Save both in ~/.config/fish/functions/ or paste them into the shell to test them. Run it with:

check-orphan-dependents

Note

Required by shows None for every orphan, because pacman -Qdtq only lists packages that nothing requires. Optional for is the column that shows which installed packages still list the orphan as an optional dependency.

Source: Fish function to list all orphans and which installed packages list them as dependencies.