In this guide, we will illustrate how to install and use Nu shell on Linux.
Introduction
Nu shell is a new Linux shell, it aims at simplifying command outputs with pipe. It comes with interesting built-in commands, is fast and easy to use. The focus of Nu shell is Pipe-lining which enables terminal users to own the terminal, commanding it to produce the output as needed.
Install Nu Shell on Linux
Install Latest of nu shell
- Download the latest release of Nu shell by running the below command
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/nushell/nushell/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url | cut -d '"' -f 4 | grep linux | wget -i -- Extract the archived file.
tar xvf nu_*_linux.tar.gz- Copy the extracted file to /usr/local/bin/ path for it to be executable
cd nu_*_linux/nushell-*/
cp -R * . /usr/local/bin/- Check version of nu shell
nu --version
nushell 0.44.0
- Start Nu shell by running the command nu as shown below:
nu
Welcome to Nushell 0.44.0 (type 'help' for more info)
/home/qadry> Install and run Nu Shell with Docker
- Run the following command to install Nu shell with docker.
docker run -it quay.io/nushell/nu:latest
Unable to find image 'quay.io/nushell/nu:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from nushell/nu
123347c49d0f: Pull complete
419640447d26: Pull complete
61k83d862619: Pull complete
7495ba04a596: Pull complete
172cuc92237d: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:3kiw8ae65b58232a863f243ed06jaf35j8al91880ad8623f4a508fa12340ksahw
Status: Downloaded newer image for quay.io/nushell/nu:latest
Welcome to Nushell 0.44.0 (type 'help' for more info)
/> Use Nu Shell
- Try to run ls command for example, you will find there is a difference between the output and the normal shell output, in Nu shell, the output will be in structure table
ls
- You can sort your table above with sizes
> ls | sort-by size
- As you show above, the results arranged in a descending mode, use reverse flag to change that to ascending as shown below
> ls | sort-by size | reverse
- Also you can view or open the files, for example we will open backup.log file
open backup.log
- the screenshot below shows what does the same file look like with being opened with vim
vim backup.log
- Show the current date with command:
date now
- Run the cal command
cal
Conclusion
That’s it
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install and use Nu shell in Linux.
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