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I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell] (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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OC by @phantomwise@lemmy.ml

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?

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Uh, this is dumb. I installed it and did a few things I would do on a normal basis. You're telling me that this is not supported? It's absolutely insane.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Nu's find builtin isn't a GNU find repacement. I think what you actually want is ls piped into where:

    ls **/* | where type == file

    I do question the choice to alias a well-known program with a builtin that does something entirely different. You can also use ^find to avoid calling the builtin. I would've expected \find (bash-like) or command find (fish-like) to work as well, but alas...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't think that's what I'd actually want, no. I want GNU find functionality for this to be a viable shell replacement. It's... neat, but it's no daily driver.

    back to /bin/zsh for me!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    you can absolutely do what you want. GNU find is external and since it conflicts with a builtin can be aliased or referenced like ^find.

    the syntax is new for sure, and it’s not for everyone.

    been daily driving for over a year

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I prefer flow to futz. Thanks for the info. Glad it's working for you. I'm staying with what works well for me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You could also just alias find back to ^find. I don't use nushell as my daily driver for other reasons, and I agree with the comment above that it's a bit questionable for them to have a built-in with that name, but I don't understand why you'd even try out a new shell, let alone one that's radically different from POSIX-style shells, much less complain online about the shell you just tried, when you're already happy with the shell you're using and are not willing to adapt any habits or explore the configuration options to match your needs.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I switched from GNU find to fd 2 years ago, unbeknownst to me at the time, this unlocked nu as a daily driver, which I’ve really enjoyed for the past year. I do fire up zsh semi-regularly when needed to escape some hairbrained corners. Scripting in nu is very nice thanks to the data manipulation and closure support. So nice to move from text manipulation to semantic structuring.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    They kinda have to replace some coreutils like find from scratch to be compatible with their philosophy of piping data tables instead of text. It’s super cool and ends up being really powerful but yeah it’s a whole new ecosystem which makes it pretty much impossible to be a drop-in shell replacement.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The commands are object-based instead of text based. The philosophy is built around chaining commands to filter data. I'm pretty sure the nushell command would be ls ./ | where type == file

    find in nushell looks like it's more for filtering the output of previous commands, not as a file search.

    https://www.nushell.sh/commands/docs/ls.html

    https://www.nushell.sh/commands/docs/find.html

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