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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes I do some one liners when in a shell, and neither of these are POSIX compliant. That's why I just stick to my customised zsh that basically does the same as fish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re absolutely right. Fish isn’t really for scripting but is great for purely interactive use.

Nushell however offers a totally different approach to “scripting” and I can achieve far more in a nushell one-liner than I ever could in a POSIX shell as it’s far more comparable to Python Pandas than a shell.

For instance I can plot a line chart of file modifications over time directly in the shell with a single line of nushell. It’s mind blowing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's great. I'm glad you like it and it sounds pretty awesome. It adds more variety to the command line, which is a beautiful thing. However, I do too much with remote systems that I don't "own", however, so, POSIX, for me, is a hard requirement - adding another domain specific language that I can only sometimes use is not worth the cognitive load for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That’s totally understandable. And I’ll admit, I’m still writing a fair few #!/bin/sh headed scripts as I to work on too POSIX systems. I think we’re a long long way off of the POSIX standard being superseded by something else.