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NuShell: a very nice shell I found today. What do you think?(www.nushell.sh)

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smeg@feddit.uk
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Genuine question: why not use grep, awk, sed, or any of the other gnu tools that can already do that?

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colournoun@beehaw.org
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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.

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smeg@feddit.uk
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I guess that’s convenient if you’re only ever on one machine, I prefer commands that work (almost) everywhere!

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colournoun@beehaw.org
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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.

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SWW13@lemmy.brief.guru
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That’s what I meant, using your shell to run command line tools to solve your issue at hand. And having a powerful shell with e.g. context dependend autocomplete (and a lot more) helps to speed up that task.

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