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I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell] (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've been trying nushell and words fail me. It's like it was made for actual humans to use! 🤯 🤯 🤯

It even repeats the column headers at the end of the table if the output takes more than your screen...

Trying to think of how to do the same thing with awk/grep/sort/whatever is giving me a headache. Actually just thinking about awk is giving me a headache. I think I might be allergic.

I'm really curious, what's your favorite shell? Have you tried other shells than your distro's default one? Are you an awk wizard or do you run away very fast whenever it's mentioned?

nushell giving nice table outputs to `ls | where type == symlink | sort-by modified` and `ps | where mem > 200MB | sort-by name`
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[–] 19 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

I prefer getting comfortable with bash, because it's everywhere and I need it for work anyway (no fancy shells in remote VMs). But you can customize bash a lot to give more colored feedback or even customize the shortcuts with readline. Another one is pwsh (powershell) because it's by default in Windows machines that (sadly) I sometimes have to use as VMs too. But you can also install it in linux since it's now open source.

But if I wanted to experiment personally I'd go for xonsh, it's a python-based one. So you have all the tools and power of python with terminal convenience.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah if you need to work on machines with bash it makes sense to stick with it. Sorry you have to work on Windows... how is powershell compared to bash?

    I don't know python but xonsh seems really cool, especially since like nushell it works on both linux and windows so you don't have to bother about OS specific syntax

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    powershell, in concept, is pretty powerful since it's integrated with C# and allows dealing with complex data structures as objects too, similar to nushell (though it does not "pretty-print" everything the way nushell does, at least by default).

    But in practice, since I don't use it as much I never really get used to it and I'm constantly checking how to do things.. I'm too used to posix tools and I often end up bringing over a portable subset of msys2, cygwin or similar whenever possible, just so I can use grep, sed, sort, uniq, curl, etc in Windows ^^U ...however, for scripts where you have to deal with structured data it's superior since it has builtin methods for that.

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