New features in the fish shell

Posted Sep 29, 2020 22:38 UTC (Tue) by miquels (guest, #59247)
Parent article: New features in the fish shell

There are more shells that are not POSIX compatible. One to keep an eye on is "nu shell", https://www.nushell.sh/ . Say what you will, it's interesting that other avenues are being explored.

New features in the fish shell

Posted Sep 30, 2020 6:11 UTC (Wed) by fwiesweg (guest, #116364) [Link] (1 responses)

Oh wow this one looks really cool! Every time I tried to work with structured data in bash I just gave up after five minutes and ran python, but nushell actually allows it without going insane! Need to give that a try instantly. If it works well, I'll say goodbye to awk, grep and sed in no time ;-)

New features in the fish shell

Posted Nov 3, 2020 15:52 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Seconded. It's very strange at first sight, but it's a really interesting reimagining of the shell idea: even the bits that look crazy (ls is a builtin?!) make sense later on when it becomes clear that you can do things like cd into tree-structured text files (a branch of a JSON file, say) and ls them and edit them on the fly :)

I don't think it's a good login shell but for popping into to dig around at structured text it's ever so much nicer than sed/awk oneliners a lot of the time.