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I just ported a bunch of scripts to nushell. I hit some bugs, a couple of which are a bit sharp, but wow, the list of quirks I have to remember for nutshell are so much fewer than for bash. Constantly impressed at the errors it catches at parse time, kinda crazy sometimes. Oh my god I could cry, strings are sane to work with. I may never write a bash script again (it's okay, I use Nix so I get nushell everywhere I'm…
Do we need a new shell or a few utilities that help produce structured output? For example, `ls | gen_structure | limit 50 | head 5`
And once you've done that, you have this new batch of commands that are structure-oriented, so you are using bash (for example) as a boot loader for your new shell. Why not just use the new shell?
I have a project in this space: https://marceltheshell.org. It is based on Python, so Python values (strings, numbers, tuples, lists, etc.) are piped between commands. No sublanguages (as in awk); instead you write Python functions.
Marcel has an ls command, but instead of producing a list of strings, it generates a stream of File objects which can be piped downstream to other commands that operate on Files.
Example: sum of file sizes under directory foobar:
ls -f foobar | (f: f.size) | red +
Or to compute size by file extension:
ls -f foobar | (f: (f.suffix, f.size)) | red . +
I still believes that [xonsh]( https://xon.sh/ ) is the best of its kind because I do not want to remember yet another language syntax
How did I not know about this? I will never parse text in Bash again.
Bash (sh) is glue. awk can parse text. As can SNOBOL4 if you REALLY want to go crazy. Or sed. Math is done by expr, dc and bc.
I just ported a bunch of scripts to nushell. I hit some bugs, a couple of which are a bit sharp, but wow, the list of quirks I have to remember for nutshell are so much fewer than for bash. Constantly impressed at the errors it catches at parse time, kinda crazy sometimes. Oh my god I could cry, strings are sane to work with. I may never write a bash script again (it's okay, I use Nix so I get nushell everywhere I'm…
bash + lua, and life is good again.
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It has Push-Location and Pop-Location, which are aliased to pushd and popd. IDK about dirs -v.
`dirs -v` would be `Get-Location -Stack`. Also in newish versions PowerShell `Set-Location` (aliased to `cd`) supports -/+ to move backwards/forwards in it's own history, so usually you don't even need to bother with `pushd`/`popd` unless you need a named stack.
Should have been called nutshell
It is cumbersome to always add a postfix: rust (lang), go (lang), etc...
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Error messages are great, autocomplete works out of the box, and commands ArentCamelCaseMonstrocitiesOnlyMicrosoft --CouldLove.
> ArentCamelCaseMonstrocitiesOnlyMicrosoft --CouldLove Personally, CamelCase makes more sense than everythinglowercasesmushedinto -onetwothreefourparametersSometimesCapitalised and --sometimesdoubledashed and -Isometimesspacedoesn'tmatter -and --sometimes - "dashlivesalone" --AND -o -- "twodasheslivealone".
Do we need a new shell or a few utilities that help produce structured output? For example, `ls | gen_structure | limit 50 | head 5`