👩‍🎓 TIL More About a Brand Nushell

I know about nushell for quite a while. Today I installed nushell and gave it a try.

I thoroughly enjoy the hard break with traditional shells. “Everything is data”, the website claims. And this brings up a couple of interesting use cases. nushell supports json (along with a whole lot of other formats) out of the box, and also includes a http client. This makes nushell a perfect fit for browsing json APIs from the command line.

However, there are a bunch of other really interesting use cases. Tools like iproute2 or lsblk allow to output json.

We list all devices in json format and tell nushell to interpret it as json.

lsblk -J | from json

We want to drill into the small nested box with root included.

lsblk -J | from json | get blockdevices.children.0.4.children.0

An absolute great tool to dive into data 😄

You even can tell nushell to output in any known format. For example | to md prints a markdown table.

I think I will find plenty of places where nushell will help me!