Nushell

A new type of shell.

Welcome to the Nushell project.
The goal of this project is to take the Unix philosophy of shells, where pipes connect simple commands together, and bring it to the modern style of development.

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Installation Overview

Pre-built binaries

Please Note: Nu works on Windows 10 and does not currently have Windows 7/8.1 support.

Download the current released .zip-file from the release page and extract it, for example, to:

C:\Program Files

And then add the folder of nu to your PATH. Once we have done that, we can run Nu using the nu command:

              > nu
C:\Users\user>
            

Scoop

If you use Scoop on Windows, you can install the binary by running

> scoop install nu

Building Nu locally

For instructions on how to build Nu locally please look over here.

Packaging status

Packages are available in the following repos:

Homebrew

If you use Homebrew on Linux, you can install the binary by running

> brew install nushell

Building Nu locally

For instructions on how to build Nu locally please look over here.

Pre-built binaries

You can download Nu pre-built from the release page.

Homebrew

If you use Homebrew on macOS, you can install the binary by running

> brew install nushell

Building Nu locally

For instructions on how to build Nu locally please look over here.

Further information

For a quick start we recommend you to read our book. It contains all the information you need for setting up Nushell and start working with it.

If you've already gone through Nu Book and you still want to have more examples of what Nu is capable off, you can take a look in the cookbook.

We have active discussions on Discord and Twitter, where you can get help from developers and other Nu users if you run into problems. Furthermore you can bring in your own ideas and visions for evolving Nu and work with us together on building this modern shell.

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