Systemd Plugin for Fish

The systemd plugin for Fish shell provides a collection of useful abbreviations to interact with systemd quickly. Inspired by the zsh systemd plugin, it offers aliases for common systemd commands, making it easier to manage services and units.

Installation

Manual Installation

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. Copy the conf.d/systemd.fish file to your Fish configuration directory:

   cp -R systemd-fish/conf.d ~/.config/fish/

3. Restart your terminal or source the file in your config.fish:

   source ~/.config/fish/conf.d/systemd.fish

Installation with Fisher

If you use Fisher, you can install the plugin directly:

fisher install Kam1k4dze/systemd-fish

Abbreviations

The plugin defines abbreviations for several categories of systemd commands.

User Commands

Abbreviation	Command	Description
sc-cat	systemctl cat	Show backing files of one or more units
sc-get-default	systemctl get-default	Get the default target
sc-help	systemctl help	Display systemd help
sc-is-active	systemctl is-active	Check if a unit is active
sc-is-enabled	systemctl is-enabled	Check if a unit is enabled
sc-status	systemctl status	Show status information for unit(s)
sc-show	systemctl show	Display properties of units or jobs
sc-show-environment	systemctl show-environment	Dump the systemd manager environment block
sc-list-units	systemctl list-units	List all active units
sc-list-unit-files	systemctl list-unit-files	List unit files installed on the system
sc-list-timers	systemctl list-timers	List active timer units
sc-failed	systemctl --failed	List failed systemd units

Sudo Commands

Abbreviation	Command	Description
sc-start	sudo systemctl start	Start unit(s)
sc-stop	sudo systemctl stop	Stop unit(s)
sc-reload	sudo systemctl reload	Reload unit(s)
sc-restart	sudo systemctl restart	Restart unit(s)
sc-try-restart	sudo systemctl try-restart	Attempt to restart unit(s)
sc-isolate	sudo systemctl isolate	Start a unit (and its dependencies) and stop others
sc-kill	sudo systemctl kill	Send a signal to unit(s)
sc-reset-failed	sudo systemctl reset-failed	Reset the "failed" state of unit(s)
sc-enable	sudo systemctl enable	Enable unit(s)
sc-disable	sudo systemctl disable	Disable unit(s)
sc-reenable	sudo systemctl reenable	Reenable unit(s)
sc-preset	sudo systemctl preset	Reset the enable/disable status for unit files
sc-mask	sudo systemctl mask	Mask unit(s)
sc-unmask	sudo systemctl unmask	Unmask unit(s)
sc-link	sudo systemctl link	Link a unit file into the search path
sc-load	sudo systemctl load	Load a unit file
sc-cancel	sudo systemctl cancel	Cancel a job
sc-set-environment	sudo systemctl set-environment	Set one or more systemd manager environment variables
sc-unset-environment	sudo systemctl unset-environment	Unset one or more systemd manager environment variables
sc-edit	sudo systemctl edit	Edit a drop-in snippet or a full unit file (with --full)

Now Commands

Abbreviation	Command	Description
sc-enable-now	sudo systemctl enable --now	Enable and immediately start unit(s)
sc-disable-now	sudo systemctl disable --now	Disable and immediately stop unit(s)
sc-mask-now	sudo systemctl mask --now	Mask and immediately stop unit(s)

Power Commands

Abbreviation	Command	Description
sc-hibernate	systemctl hibernate	Hibernate the system
sc-hybrid-sleep	systemctl hybrid-sleep	Put the system into hybrid-sleep
sc-poweroff	systemctl poweroff	Power off the system
sc-reboot	systemctl reboot	Reboot the system
sc-suspend	systemctl suspend	Suspend the system

User Abbreviations

For user-level operations, the plugin provides equivalent abbreviations using the scu- prefix. For example:

• scu-list-units expands to systemctl --user list-units
• scu-enable-now expands to systemctl --user enable --now

This allows you to manage user services without needing sudo.

Customization

The abbreviations are defined using Fish's abbr --add command. Feel free to modify or extend these abbreviations by editing the conf.d/systemd.fish file.