I’ve always struggled with actually retaining knowledge on how to use the myriad tools you’d need to extract/parse data (awk, sed and friends) and this was a game changer. I don’t quite daily drive it just yet but when I do need it, it’s vastly more ergonomic.
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ishanpage@programming.dev 11 months ago
The real solution to this lies in a paradigm shift: see nushell
lupec@lemm.ee 11 months ago
combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 11 months ago
love to read fellow* people in the unix world discovering what made powershell great 10+ years ago as though it’s a paradigm shift. and the top comment of the thread is still nitpicking the points in the post while missing the forest for the trees. I mean
ifconfig
as an example is lol but still.like powershell’s got such bizarre warts and design choices and it’s more ergonomic than unstructured text pipelines despite that
i know it’s not that simple but still, lol
*linux has been my primary os for 9+ years, not throwing stones here
LPThinker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nushell is so great! I’ve been using it for a couple years. It has completely replaced my need for tools like grep, sed, awk, etc. and because it handles JSON and so many other data formats natively I rarely even need to think about parsing.
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Thank you for bringing up nushell, had never heard of it
starman@programming.dev 11 months ago
I actually use both! It’s so nice to just
jc git log
and then work with the data using nushell :)dukk@programming.dev 11 months ago
Oh that’s smart! And then nushell just handles the data for you…I might try that!