My aliases for Zsh : killall lookalike, rebuilding osx "open with" db, checking new files in mercurial changeset, etc.

zshaliases

# Check if Incoming pull has new files in its changeset
alias hgnf="hg in -p | grep -B1 'new file'"

# start postgres
alias pgstart="/usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start"

# Cleanup the "open with" list of OSX by rebuilding its db
alias rebuild-openwith="/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user"

# Kill all processes containing the given string
function killa()
{
  ps aux | grep $1 | grep -v "grep" | cut -d' ' -f11 | xargs kill
}