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I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell] (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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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?

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

That's basically how Powershell works.

*ducks*

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This might be unpopular in Linux spaces but I consider Powershell for the most part well designed. I think its better suited to writing scripts than bash, but worse at being an interactive shell.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

better suited to writing scripts than bash, but worse at being an interactive shell

And that's totally fine. Different tools for use cases. 👌💪

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's essentially an object oriented shell. It's actually pretty good. But yeah, error outputs are a pain to read.

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

A worse interactive shell than bash? No way, I find PowerShell closer to fish for interactive use.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah it was inspired by Powershell. But it also has syntax that isn't completely awful.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

what-do-you-mean-awful-syntax ?

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago

Ha-Ha -exactly

[–] stewie410@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

Doesn't look nearly as verbose either

[–] Septimaeus 10 points 3 weeks ago

Most bash fans I’ve known carve out an exception for powershell from their overall critique of windows. Personally, I think it’s not a fair comparison considering how god fucking awful everything else is in windows, but I do agree that it’s a decent shell.