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Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by adityamwagh on Friday April 11, 2025 @11:08PM (#43660992)
What’s better about the nushell? I tried it a couple of years ago but didn’t enjoy using it — probably because I primarily use bash and nushell seems quite different from it.

Would appreciate if you could share some examples from your workflow!

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by account-5 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @01:56AM (#43661724)
I have a feeling you'll not appreciate my answer considering your current workflow.

I don't mind bash and the various cli programs I used to use for the tasks I was doing at the cli. However I was forced years ago to learn powershell. Now syntax aside I was able to use powershells native functionality to do things I'd have to call other programs for, read and process CSV, JSON, XML, etc. Nushell is like powershell but a much better syntax and I prefer the data model and love the output.

My main workflows consist of exploring data, cleaning it, and outputting what I need. Nushell has this covered.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the Best Open Source Tool You've Discovere... by adityamwagh on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @03:58AM (#43690142)
Oh I see. Makes sense for your use case. Especially since you’ve been using powershell since a long time.
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