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?

  • calliope@retrolemmy.com
    9·
    6 hours ago

    I use zsh, mainly because I’ve been using it for a really long time and it felt like an upgraded bash.

    I also have used fish a tiny amount and like the idea but zsh just works for my purposes and I already know how it works.

    nushell looks really cool though!

    I don’t have much occasion to use awk any more but it can be really useful!

    • phantomwise@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      4·
      6 hours ago

      I’ve also been using zsh until now, it’s clear it’s a massive improvement over bash. No more accidentally pasting code into the terminal!

      I wasn’t even looking for a new interactive shell, zsh is fine, I was looking for a new language for shell scripts because I’m tired of bash’s legacy quirks… but the interactive nushell was too cool to resist!

      • calliope@retrolemmy.com
        1·
        4 hours ago

        nushell seriously looks amazing for working with data. I gotta remember it exists the next time I’m doing stuff like this.

        It seems like a nice shell to have around and usable for cases like this regardless!