Top Useful Oh-My-Zsh Plugins

Oh-My-Zsh’s plugin system will turbocharge your linux experience. If you are a Manjaro Linux user, check out this article on how to integrate Oh-My-Zsh with the default terminal.
I have a list of great plugins to add to your ~/.zshrc
You can also check out the full list Oh-My-Zsh Github Plugins

List of My Favorite Plugins

plugins=(
    copybuffer
    copydir
    copyfile
    dirhistory
    emoji
    encode64
    git
    history
    jsontools
    kubectl
    rsync
    sudo
    web-search
)

1. copybuffer

Copy buffer allows you to copy what is already typed on the command line with ctl+o

2. copydir

Copydir will add your current directory the clip board. Just need to type copydir in the terminal

3. copyfile

Just enter copyfile <your_filename> in the terminal and the contents of the file will be added to your clipboard.

4. dirhistory

dirhistory helps one navigate their previous directories. Alt+LeftArrow takes you back to your previous directory while Alt+RightArrow takes you forward. to where your were. Alt+Up takes you to the parent directory (the equivlent of cd ../ )

5. emoji

emoji, as the name suggests, adds emoji support to your terminal

6. encode64

This will encode or decode your input to and from base64
encode64 <your string> and decode64 <your string>

7. git

This creates a bunch of aliases for common git commands. There are too many too list here but you can find them here.

8. history

This aliases the history command that is used to show your past commands. h prints the list of commands hs <search> searches while hsi <search searches case insensitive.

9. jsontools

This will help you work with json files:

• pp_json: pretty prints json.
• is_json: returns true if valid json; false otherwise.
• urlencode_json: returns a url encoded string for the given json.
• urldecode_json: returns decoded json for the given url encoded string.

10. kubectl

Maybe a little narrow but aliases a bunch of useful kuburnetes commands if you manage a cluster

11. rsync

rsync is the correct way to copy files and this will alias key commands for you :

• rsync-copy rsync -avz –progress -h
• rsync-move rsync -avz –progress -h –remove-source-files
• rsync-update rsync -avzu –progress -h
• rsync-synchronize rsync -avzu –delete –progress -h
  

  12. sudo

  saving one of the best for last I don’t know how I lived without this command. Hitting ‘esc’ twice takes your previous command and adds sudo to the front. Very useful if you needed elevated privileges to run that command

  13. web-search

  This one will start your web search from your terminal and open your browser.
  web_search google pizza
google pizza
web_search duckduckgo pizza
duckduckgo pizza