Bashisms

A frequently asked question is, "What bashims does Nushell support?". Frequently these questions revolve around bang bang functionality.

What is a bashism

A bashism is a command, operator, or syntax in the repl that most people associate with bash.

What bashisms does Nushell support?

Bang Bang syntax

In reedline we support these bashisms.

1. !! - Repeat the last command.
2. !n - Repeat the nth command from your nushell history.
3. !-n - Repeat the nth command from your last history entry.
4. !$ - Get the last spatially separated token from the last command in your history.
5. !term - Repeat the last command match a strings beginning.

How to invoke bang bang syntax

In nushell when you type a bang command, it performs that functionality and places the result in the nushell command line buffer in the repl. It does not execute it.

Bashisms tutorial

See the Bashisms tutorial for the supported bashisms and how to use them. You can access the tutorial directly in Nushell using:

tutor bashisms