Ask HN: Are alternative (oil, nu, etc.) shells usable as daily drivers?

Post by akkartik » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 3:47 PM UTC

darrenf wrote: post #57

maxloh wrote: post #51

Nushell is great for simple tasks. i.e. ls **/data.json | each {|it| mv $it.name $"(dirname $it.name)/data.yml" } Will be much more complex in bash find -name "data.json" | xargs -i bash -c "mv \"{}\" \"\$(dirname '{}')/data.yml\"" Note the escaped quotes and dollar signs in bash. It is really difficult to get them right. In Nutshell we are actually using "functions" (supported syntax-wise) to do the job, so it will…

> find -name "data.json" | xargs -i bash -c "mv \"{}\" \"\$(dirname '{}')/data.yml\"" Albeit this task needn't involve a shell at all - just `find` and `rename`: find . -name data.json -exec rename .json .yml {} +

Post by aidenn0 » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

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Post by v3ss0n » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:05 PM UTC

pringk02 wrote: post #17

I use `fish` as my main shell. It's closer to POSIX than eshell or oil, but it's definitely not POSIX. Personally, the main thing I like about it is that I can't copy paste bash commands. It forces me to read and understand and then convert. It also has some quality of life stuff I really like. I think next time I'm just going to go back to ZSH though as I feel I have learnt enough from the experience of using it tha…