Fish shell 3.2.0 released

[Posted March 1, 2021 by corbet]

Version 3.2.0 of the fish shell has been released. New features include undo and redo support (for command-line editing, not commands!) and a long list of incremental improvements; see the announcement for details. LWN last looked at the fish shell in September.

Fish shell 3.2.0 released

Posted Mar 2, 2021 13:52 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (3 responses)

This is really OT, but on the last fish coverage, someone linked to nushell in a comment. I just spent half an hour checking it out, and it looks very cool and powerful: truly a reimagining of a shell (and in particular pipes) for structured data rather than plain text, and for those who use tabular files (tsv, etc) a lot, I can imagine it would be very flexible; I intend to give it a try. Would be cool to see a knowledgeable article on it.

Fish shell 3.2.0 released

Posted Mar 3, 2021 1:50 UTC (Wed) by himi (subscriber, #340) [Link]

I'd definitely second the suggestion/request for a good intro article to nushell - it looks very interesting, and a number of its features could be very useful to me. Though I suspect I'll be coding sh until my keyboard is cremated along with my body, just because that seems to be the way of the universe for *nix admins . . .

Fish shell 3.2.0 released

Posted Mar 5, 2021 22:13 UTC (Fri) by murukesh (subscriber, #97031) [Link] (1 responses)

Is it really innovative compared to, say, Powershell? I haven't used Powershell in about 12 years, but I remember it having structured output of commands which could be used in its version of pipeline.

That said, passages like this one doesn't inspire confidence in novelty:

A unique trait of Nushell is that you can also create a string of one word without any quotes at all.

Unique?!

Fish shell 3.2.0 released

Posted Mar 14, 2021 18:57 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

There's structured output of commands, and then there's "lots of things are builtins that you wouldn't expect in order that you can cd into keys of a json or other structured document as if they were directories and run those builtins on them". I'm not sure if you can call the result a general-purpose shell at all, but it's a *really interesting* data explorer.

Fish shell 3.2.0 released

Posted Mar 2, 2021 17:35 UTC (Tue) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

Nushell is worth giving a try, considering I'm having trouble installing Powershell on Linux Mint 20.1 (not that I use it much, but it's fun to play around with....)