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?

  • Overspark@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    It’s arguably better as a scripting language than as an interactive shell. There are a lot of shell scripts out there that also dabble in light data processing, and it’s not the easiest thing to achieve well or without corner cases. So nu scripts are great if all you need is shell scripts with some data processing.

    nu as an interactive shell is great for the use cases it shines at (like OP’s example), but a bit too non-POSIXy for a lot of people, especially since it’s not (yet) as well polished as something like fish is for example.

    Edit to add that nu’s main drawback for scripting currently is that the language isn’t entirely stable yet, so you better be prepared to change your scripts as required to keep up with newer nu versions (they’re at 0.107 for a reason).