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Use color grep by default
Alias the grep command to show colored results by default.

create a progress bar...
A simple way yo do a progress bar like wget.

Fix the vi zsh bindings on ubuntu
Use sed to comment out any up/down bindings in zsh

Copy the full path of a file to the clipboard (requires xclip or similar)
Handy for those times you need to paste a file path in an IDE or some other app. sudo apt-get install xclip Then, for convenience, alias xclip to 'xclip -selection c' so you can just do something like realpath . | xclip

Read info(1) pages using 'less' instead of GNU Texinfo
I like man pages, and I like using `less(1)` as my pager. However, most GNU software keeps the manual in the 'GNU Texinfo' format, and I'm not a fan of the info(1) interface. Just give me less. This command will print out the info(1) pages, using the familiar interface of less!

To create files with specific permission:

Outputs a 10-digit random number

Top 10 Memory Processes
It displays the top 10 processes sorted by memory usage

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

tar directory and compress it with showing progress and Disk IO limits
tar directory and compress it with showing progress and Disk IO limits. Pipe Viewer can be used to view the progress of the task, Besides, he can limit the disk IO, especially useful for running Servers.


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