I’ve been trying nushell and words fail me. It’s like it was made for actual humans to use! 🤯 🤯 🤯

It even repeats the column headers at the end of the table if the output takes more than your screen…

Trying to think of how to do the same thing with awk/grep/sort/whatever is giving me a headache. Actually just thinking about awk is giving me a headache. I think I might be allergic.

I’m really curious, what’s your favorite shell? Have you tried other shells than your distro’s default one? Are you an awk wizard or do you run away very fast whenever it’s mentioned?

  • Ferk@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    It’s actually the lazy way. I only work once, then copy that work everywhere. The copying/syncing is surprisingly easy. If that’s what you call “package management” then I guess doing “package management” saves a lot of work.

    If I had to re-configure my devices to my liking every time I would waste time in repetition, not in an actual improvement. I configured it the way I liked it once already, so I want to be able to simply copy it over easily instead of re-writing it every time for different systems. It’s the same reason why I’ve been reusing my entire /home partition for ages in my desktop, I preserve all my setup even after testing out multiple distros.

    If someone does not customize their defaults much or does not mind re-configuring things all the time, I’m sure for them it would be ok to have different setup on each device… but I prefer working only once and copying it.

    And I didn’t say that bash is the only config I have. Coincidentally, my config does include a config.fish I wrote ages ago (14 years ago apparently). I just don’t use it because most devices don’t have fish so it cannot replace POSIX/Bash… as a result it naturally was left very barebones (probably outdated too) and it’s not as well crafted/featureful as the POSIX/bash one which gets used much more.