This week in Nushell #222

Nushell

• WindSoilder made it possible to pass switch values dynamically, and improved redirection so it supports redirecting stderr while piping stdout to the next command
• ysthakur created a spread operator for list literals
• amtoine deprecated std clip, and removed def-env and export def-env
• hustcer made lots of fixes to the release workflows: 1, 2, 3
• drbrain did several internal refactorings to help with error messages (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) and added a new is-terminal command to determine if stdin/out/err are a terminal
• sholderbach moved more commands to the opaque Record type, bumped procfs to 0.16.0, bumped the Nu version to 0.87.2, and used the new record API in describe --detailed, and improved developer documentation
• danielsomerfield fixed the toolkit to run for the whole workspace on 'check pr'
• IanManske refactored Value cell path functions to fix bugs
• tskinn added a new mktemp command
• MarikaChlebowska added a more descriptive error message when passing a list to from_csv

Documentation

• Ktoks created Update creating_errors.md
• sholderbach created Clean up contributor book
• ppenguin created Add parse examples to Parsing
• arnau created Unifies all cookbook codeblocks to use the same style., and Add a cookbook comparing jq and nushell
• 132ikl created Add a snippet to suggest using the ? operator for environmental variables

Nu_Scripts

• amtoine created add clip from standard library
• WindSoilder created Using def --env instead of def-env
• fj0r created rename cmd parse to argx to improve importing