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NuShell: a very nice shell I found today. What do you think? (www.nushell.sh)

submitted 1 year ago by starman@programming.dev to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Genuine question: why not use grep, awk, sed, or any of the other gnu tools that can already do that?

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could, but maybe a good shell makes it easier than the external tool. Or maybe you use the shell to effectively combine the inputs and outputs of the other tools.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess that's convenient if you're only ever on one machine, I prefer commands that work (almost) everywhere!

[–] colournoun@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Me too. I could never get into nushell or fish because they’re not posix and I don’t need to learn two ways to do something.

[–] SWW13@lemmy.brief.guru 1 points 1 year ago

That's what I meant, using your shell to run command line tools to solve your issue at hand. And having a powerful shell with e.g. context dependend autocomplete (and a lot more) helps to speed up that task.