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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's cool, I just gave it a go, but I'm not sure it's gonna happen that I'll transition from

ls -lrt (this does not work in NuShell)

to

ls | sort-by modified | reverse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, it's easier to remember second script

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

While your argument is valid, most bash users I know are lazy bitches and tend to alias commands which require to type more than 5 letters. I guess NuShell lower the bar for NuUsers, but of I have to remember either single letters or puppy it through longer commands, I world opt for single letters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Totally - for new users it's great... similarly, I would have loved to start typing on Dvorak.

My problem might be one of age, but there is no way I'm gonna retrain myself after 20+ years of typing that specific ls command... ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

So maybe this is too much of a kludge, but I happened to see that you can define custom sub-commands to extend existing commands. You can use that to reproduce your familiar command:

def "ls -lrt" [] {
  ls | sort-by modified | reverse
}

Of course this does not capture the usual composability of those switches.