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?
It's a superset of python, so valid python should run fine. Imports into your shell are doable, too -- for example, I import
path.Pathin my xonshrc, so it's always available when I hit the shell. I don't often have to usePath, because regular shell commands are often more straightforward. But when I do, it's nice to have it already loaded. Granted, that could get kooky, depending on what you import and execute.You can associate/shebang Xonsh with .xsh files, or run "xonsh foo.xsh" - and that works like "bash foo.sh" would, except using xonsh syntax, of course.
It's not Bash compatible - copypasta of scripts may not work out. But it's a good shell with some typical shell semantics.
there are some great plugins, too - like autovox, which allows you to create python venvs associated with specific subfolders. so,
cd myprojectdoes the equivalent ofcd myproject; . path/to/venv/bin/activate.overall, there definitely is some jank, but it's a great tool and I love it.
Hm. That sounds delightful. I do think once your script hits a not one liner level of complexity, python is a logical next step.
Does it provide any useful stuff to Python itself? Would I like, derive any benefit to writing a script in xonsh over pure python?