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    • Lupec
      5•2 years ago

      I just learned about nushell a few days ago and it blew me away. I’ve always wanted a shell that made manipulating data easier, and with my programming background the functional style just clicked instantly. Been daily driving it for a couple weeks, definitely recommend folks give it a go.

      • @fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works
        5•2 years ago

        It’s incredible, isn’t it? I’m already working on plugins for a variety of tasks so I can fire things off for malware analysis, push tables to data stores, and more. It’s such an obvious evolution of POSIX, I’m surprised it’s not already a standard across all shells.

        • Lupec
          5•2 years ago

          Yup, it legit changed how I think about interacting with a shell. I’ve always been kinda terrible at actually learning stuff like awk, sed and company on the long term without needing half a dozen Google searches before they mostly do what I want so actually being able to perform complex operations on whatever input on the fly feels incredible!
          It helps so much with API development as well, I’ve been using it on a side project and having a built-in http client plus auto JSON parsing feels ergonomic in ways that just make me giddy lol.

    • Rustmilian
      -2•2 years ago

      Fish is overrated imo.
      Nushell is better but not quite what I’m looking for.

  • @jsdz@lemmy.ml
    20•2 years ago

    “bat” seemed interesting, until I remembered that I’d just do a “git diff” if I wanted to see a diff. The rest do not strike me as substantially better than what they’re trying to replace. Enjoy them all as you will, but I would recommend refraining from describing them as “modern unix” in the presence of any old-timers.

    • @jellyfish@sh.itjust.works
      17•2 years ago

      Quite a few are just better, and others have the chance to get better because they’re actively accepting new features contributions.

      One I personally use:

      • delta Provides a better diff for code than git’s diff tool (even after trying all of git’s diff algorithms)
      • ripgrep So much faster than grep. Also had great include/exclude file filtering, easier to use than grep’s
      • jq Easy to exact json info. I tend to use rq too for yaml
      • instead of mcfly I use atuin, which is another alternative bash history. I really didn’t think I’d like it, but it’s been a big productivity boon
      • curlie/httpie A really nice alternative to something like postman when debugging HTTP connections. I use httpie rn but might switch because I’m so much more familiar with curl’s flags, but like the formatted output. There’s a few others I use that aren’t on the list too.

      It’s totally fine to not want to change what’s working for you, but if you do that too long you could miss out on something that just works better in your workflow. Give em a go and complain after you switch back.

      • @jsdz@lemmy.ml
        2•2 years ago

        Well, I did overlook jq in there. Not the first time I’ve forgotten that it exists.

    • @GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•2 years ago

      I use bat as a drop in replacement for cat (overriding cat in my .zshrc) by using --style=plain --paging=never on the bat command. Basically looks and works the same as cat, except with syntax highlighting.

    • @Pantherina@feddit.de
      1•2 years ago

      Bat also adds lots of stuff to the output. Is there a clean print functionality without the extra numbers?

      Edit: but with the parameters its great!

      • @lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de
        9•2 years ago

        not actually. I also use many programs that are MIT or BSD licensed.

        it’s just that replacing working GPL’d programs with MIT ones might be more appealing to corporations than someone like me who cares as much about ideology as the programmes themselves.

        I don’t wish to see services being sucked for their value by corporates who give little to nothing in return. history is replete with such instances.

        • @Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world
          3•2 years ago

          I do understand your scepticism towards companies; the reason for my question was that I got the impression from your first comment that you don’t like/install MIT code and was just confused as to why someone might dislike that.

  • leap123
    10•2 years ago

    How come half of the commands in this readme were written in Rust