Questions tagged [nushell]
A flexible cross-platform shell with structured data, a programming language, clear error messages, IDE support, and its own (input) line editor "reedline".
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Nushell progress status length and index
I am running some image transcoding tasks using taskfile and Nushell -- using Nconvert to transcode.
transcode-jpegxl:
#!nu
let read_img_files = { ls -f **/* | where type == file | get name}
do $...
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Finding the line count of source files as a table in nushell
I'm very early in trying to learn nushell, sorry! … I'd like to build a table with all the recursively found ".swift" source files in a folder, and then append an additional column that ...
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nushell: open excel files and search them for a text
I would like to use Nu to open several Excel files, search them for text and print the line of each match along with its location. For example:
hugh file.xsls, sheet 123, line 98765: ... todo ...
To ...
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nushell: pass list of filtered files to external program
I want Nu to find some files for me, filter them and pass them to an external program. For example: "Revert all files whose name contains 'GENERATED' with Git." I tried several variants, but ...
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How do I change the default location for nushell configration files
I noticed the default location for nushell's configuration files on Mac OS is ~/Library/Application Support/nushell/, is it possible to change it to another location?
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How to get a list of keys from a record?
I have a record {a:1, b:2}.
I would like to know how to get list of keys from it, which would return [a b] in this case.
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Skipping lines in a large file, then pipe to external command in Nushell
I'm trying to write a very simple Nushell script. I want to skip the first 46 lines and pipe the rest to an external command. In Bash:
zcat filename.sql.gz |
tail -n +46 |
mysql dbname
Since ...
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What's the opposite of `/` in Command Prompt (nushell)?
Whenever I accidentally press / +Return. I end up at the root of the current drive, or C:\.
Is there an opposite operation? A shortcut to last location? Anything?
I'm using nushell, on Windows 10.
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nushell: Add computed column to table
How can I add a column in a table in nushell, which computes its values from other columns?
For example, I would like to split the column "name" into "path without name" and "...
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nushell: list all files recursively
How can I list files recursively with the nu shell?
More specifically: All files, folders and everything else in a specified folder and every inner folder, recursively.
I tried ls **, but that does ...
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