diff --git a/scripts/i3exit b/scripts/i3exit
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+function lock() {
+	# Date and time parameters
+	x_pos=100
+	y_pos=1040
+	datetime_color=FFFFFF80
+
+	i3lock -i ~/Pictures/wallpapers/roundabout-blues.png --force-clock \
+	    --timepos="$x_pos:$y_pos" \
+	    --timecolor="$datetime_color" \
+	    --datecolor="$datetime_color"
+}
+case "$1" in
+    lock)
+        lock # Defined in the same folder
+        ;;
+    logout)
+        i3-msg exit
+        ;;
+    suspend)
+        lock && systemctl suspend
+        ;;
+    hibernate)
+        lock && systemctl hibernate
+        ;;
+    reboot)
+        systemctl reboot
+        ;;
+    shutdown)
+        systemctl poweroff
+        ;;
+    *)
+        echo "Usage: $0 {lock|logout|suspend|hibernate|reboot|shutdown}"
+        exit 2
+esac
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/shell/.aliases b/shell/.aliases
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+# Useful when changing urxvt colors
+alias ureload='xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources'
+
+# Shortcut to script with configuration
+alias lock='~/scripts/i3exit lock'
+
+# Colorize output
+alias ls='ls -CF --color=auto'
+alias ll='ls -li'
+alias la='ls -lisa'
+alias lsl='ls -lhFA | less'
+alias tree='tree -C'
+alias grep='grep --color=auto'
+alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
+alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
+alias diff='diff --color=auto'
+
+# Better defaults
+alias df='df -ahiT --total'
+alias cp='cp -i'
+alias more='less'
+#alias mkdir='mkdir -v'
+alias userlist='cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd'
+alias fhere='find . -name '
+alias free='free -mt'
+alias du='du -ach | sort -h'
+alias ps='ps auxf'
+alias psgrep='ps aux | grep -v grep | grep -i -e VSZ -e'
+alias wget='wget -c'
+alias histg='history | grep'
+alias myip='curl http://ipecho.net/plain; echo'
+#alias logs="find /var/log -type f -exec file {} \; | grep 'text' | cut -d' ' -f1 | sed -e's/:$//g' | grep -v '[0-9]$' | xargs tail -f"
+alias folders='find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -sk | sort -rn'
diff --git a/shell/.functions b/shell/.functions
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+++ b/shell/.functions
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+# Creates an archive (*.tar.gz) from given directory.
+function maketar() { tar cvzf "${1%%/}.tar.gz"  "${1%%/}/"; }
+
+# Create a ZIP archive of a file or folder.
+function makezip() { zip -r "${1%%/}.zip" "$1" ; }
+
+function extract {
+ if [ -z "$1" ]; then
+    # display usage if no parameters given
+    echo "Usage: extract <path/file_name>.<zip|rar|bz2|gz|tar|tbz2|tgz|Z|7z|xz|ex|tar.bz2|tar.gz|tar.xz>"
+ else
+    if [ -f $1 ] ; then
+        # NAME=${1%.*}
+        # mkdir $NAME && cd $NAME
+        case $1 in
+          *.tar.bz2)   tar xvjf ../$1    ;;
+          *.tar.gz)    tar xvzf ../$1    ;;
+          *.tar.xz)    tar xvJf ../$1    ;;
+          *.lzma)      unlzma ../$1      ;;
+          *.bz2)       bunzip2 ../$1     ;;
+          *.rar)       unrar x -ad ../$1 ;;
+          *.gz)        gunzip ../$1      ;;
+          *.tar)       tar xvf ../$1     ;;
+          *.tbz2)      tar xvjf ../$1    ;;
+          *.tgz)       tar xvzf ../$1    ;;
+          *.zip)       unzip ../$1       ;;
+          *.Z)         uncompress ../$1  ;;
+          *.7z)        7z x ../$1        ;;
+          *.xz)        unxz ../$1        ;;
+          *.exe)       cabextract ../$1  ;;
+          *)           echo "extract: '$1' - unknown archive method" ;;
+        esac
+    else
+        echo "$1 - file does not exist"
+    fi
+fi
+}
+
+# jump directorys upwards until it hits a directory with multiple folders
+function up() {
+  local d=""
+  limit=$1
+  for ((i=1 ; i <= limit ; i++))
+    do
+      d=$d/..
+    done
+  d=$(echo $d | sed 's/^\///')
+  if [ -z "$d" ]; then
+    d=..
+  fi
+  cd $d
+}
+
+# create an directory and directly cd into it
+function mcd () {
+  mkdir -p $1
+  cd $1
+}
+
diff --git a/shell/.profile b/shell/.profile
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index 0000000..f50a1c4
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+++ b/shell/.profile
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+# Add our scripts to the path
+PATH="$HOME/scripts:$PATH"
+
+# Export our favorite editor
+export EDITOR=vim
+export VISUAL=$EDITOR # Also use it when asking for a GUI
+
+# Color ls output depending on filetype with dircolors
+[ -e "/etc/DIR_COLORS" ] && DIR_COLORS="/etc/DIR_COLORS"
+[ -e "$HOME/.dircolors" ] && DIR_COLORS="$HOME/.dircolors"
+[ -e "$DIR_COLORS" ] || DIR_COLORS=""
+eval "`dircolors -b $DIR_COLORS`"
+
+# Allow for colorful man pages
+export LESS=-R
+export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[1;31m'     # begin blink
+export LESS_TERMCAP_md=$'\E[1;36m'     # begin bold
+export LESS_TERMCAP_me=$'\E[0m'        # reset bold/blink
+export LESS_TERMCAP_so=$'\E[01;44;33m' # begin reverse video
+export LESS_TERMCAP_se=$'\E[0m'        # reset reverse video
+export LESS_TERMCAP_us=$'\E[1;32m'     # begin underline
+export LESS_TERMCAP_ue=$'\E[0m'        # reset underline