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Sven Slootweg, low-spoons mode ("still kinky and horny anyway")1d ago

Honestly I think my biggest problem with Nushell is that it went so hard on the "generic implementations of things just like in a normal programming language", while that is indeed a great feature, that they seem to have completely forgotten about the ergonomics layer on top of that meaning that even for trivial common tasks you need to write relatively complex invocations when that should have just been an out-of-the-box alias or shortcut

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Hubert Klein Ikkink 3d ago

Simply calculating the sum of numeric values in #Nushell: https://blog.mrhaki.com/2026/01/nushell-niceties-calculating-sum-of.html

Nushell Niceties: Calculating The Sum Of Numeric Values

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KFears 3d ago

PSA to #NixOS users: remember to clean up your garbage roots! Leftover garbage from `nix build`s and direnvs is getting left all over the place, taking storage space.

The #nushell one-liners I used:
Check: `nix-store --gc --print-roots | parse '{source} -> {path}' | where source !~ '^(/nix/var|/run/\w+-system|\{memory|/proc|\{temp)' | par-each {|e| $"($e.source)" }`
Delete: `nix-store --gc --print-roots | parse '{source} -> {path}' | where source !~ '^(/nix/var|/run/\w+-system|\{memory|/proc|\{temp)' | par-each {|e| rm -v $e.source }`

N-gated Hacker News 3d ago

🚀 OMG, someone is trying to convince people that #Nushell will revolutionize their #terminal lives! 🙄 Expecting #techies to ditch their beloved #bash or #zsh for a "better" shell is like expecting cats to stop ignoring you—good luck with that! 🐱🐚
https://www.sophiajt.com/case-for-nushell/ #Revolution #HackerNews #ngated

The case for Nushell

Sophia June Turner

Hacker News 3d ago

The Case for Nushell (2023)

https://www.sophiajt.com/case-for-nushell/

#HackerNews #Nushell #Nushell2023 #Programming #Shells #DeveloperTools

The case for Nushell

Sophia June Turner

rlonstein 3d ago

Hey kids, don't be like me. If you use #nushell and your history is stored in #sqlite and your home directory is on #nfs take frequent back ups or exports of that db file. One day, maybe, if you're unlucky, you'll get a trashed file that `PRAGMA integrity_check`, `.dump`, `.recover` can't save. At least some of it can be extracted with `strings` 😭

JDriven 4d ago

Nushell Niceties: Checking String Starts Or Ends With Given String
A blog by @mrhaki

To check if a string value starts or ends with a given string you can use the str starts-with and str ends-with commands. The command returns a boolean value: true if the string starts or ends with the given string and false otherwise. The commands are case sensitive by default. You can use the --ignore-case (or the shorthand -i) to ignore casing...

#dev #softwaredevelopment #Nushell

https://jdriven.com/blog/2026/01/Nushell-Niceties-Checking-String-Starts-Or-Ends-With-Given-String/