starman@programming.dev to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoNuShell: a very nice shell I found today. What do you think?www.nushell.shexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up151arrow-down1external-linkNuShell: a very nice shell I found today. What do you think?www.nushell.shstarman@programming.dev to Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square29fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoGenuine question: why not use grep, awk, sed, or any of the other gnu tools that can already do that?
minus-squarecolournoun@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoYou could, but maybe a good shell makes it easier than the external tool. Or maybe you use the shell to effectively combine the inputs and outputs of the other tools.
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI guess that’s convenient if you’re only ever on one machine, I prefer commands that work (almost) everywhere!
minus-squarecolournoun@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoMe too. I could never get into nushell or fish because they’re not posix and I don’t need to learn two ways to do something.
Genuine question: why not use grep, awk, sed, or any of the other gnu tools that can already do that?
You could, but maybe a good shell makes it easier than the external tool. Or maybe you use the shell to effectively combine the inputs and outputs of the other tools.
I guess that’s convenient if you’re only ever on one machine, I prefer commands that work (almost) everywhere!
Me too. I could never get into nushell or fish because they’re not posix and I don’t need to learn two ways to do something.