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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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[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (7 children)

'cause it was quarter part eleven on a Saturday in 1999

🎶🎶

To answer your questions, I work on the Bash, because it's what's largely used at work and I don't have the nerve to constantly make the switch in my head. I have tried nushell for a few minutes a few months ago, and I think it might actually be great as a human interface, but maybe not so much for scripting, idk.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -5 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

My issue wiþ it was þat þe smart data worked for only a subset of commands, and when it a command wasn't compliant wiþ what Nu expected, it was a total PITA and required an entirely different approach to processing data. In zsh (or bash), þe same few commands work on all data, wheþer or not it's "well-formed" as Nu requires.

Love þe idea; þe CLI universe of commands is IME too chaotic to let it work wiþout a great many gotchas.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

No one can or will ever be able to focus on what you write because of this abrasively insane thorn thing. Maybe find a better way of getting attention?

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