Nushell
Get Nu!
Getting Started
  • The Nushell Book
  • Command Reference
  • Cookbook
  • Language Reference Guide
  • Contributing Guide
Blog
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GitHub
Get Nu!
Getting Started
  • The Nushell Book
  • Command Reference
  • Cookbook
  • Language Reference Guide
  • Contributing Guide
Blog
  • English
  • 中文
  • Deutsch
  • Français
  • Español
  • 日本語
  • Português do Brasil
  • Русский язык
GitHub
  • Introduction
  • Installation
    • Default Shell
  • Getting Started
    • Quick Tour
    • Moving Around the System
    • Thinking in Nu
    • Nushell Cheat Sheet
  • Nu Fundamentals
    • Types of Data
    • Loading Data
    • Pipelines
    • Working with Strings
    • Working with Lists
    • Working with Records
    • Working with Tables
    • Navigating and Accessing Structured Data
    • Special Variables
  • Programming in Nu
    • Custom Commands
    • Aliases
    • Operators
    • Variables
    • Control Flow
    • Scripts
    • Modules
      • Using Modules
      • Creating Modules
    • Overlays
    • Sorting
    • Testing your Nushell Code
    • Best Practices
  • Nu as a Shell
    • Configuration
    • Environment
    • Stdout, Stderr, and Exit Codes
    • Running System (External) Commands
    • How to Configure 3rd Party Prompts
    • Directory Stack
    • Reedline, Nu's Line Editor
    • Custom Completions
    • Externs
    • Coloring and Theming in Nu
    • Hooks
    • Background Jobs
  • Coming to Nu
    • Coming from Bash
    • Coming from CMD.EXE
    • Nu map from other shells and domain specific languages
    • Nu Map from Imperative Languages
    • Nu Map from Functional Languages
    • Nushell operator map
  • Design Notes
    • How Nushell Code Gets Run
  • (Not So) Advanced
    • Standard Library (Preview)
    • Dataframes
    • Metadata
    • Creating Your Own Errors
    • Parallelism
    • Plugins
    • explore

Table of Contents

  • Installation - Installing Nushell
  • Introduction - Getting started
  • Thinking in Nu - Thinking in Nushell
  • Moving around - Moving around in Nushell
  • Types of data - Types of data in Nushell
  • Loading data - Loading data and using it
  • Strings - Strings, escape characters, and string interpolation
  • Working with lists - Working with Nu lists
  • Working with tables - Working with Nu tables
  • Pipelines - How the pipeline works
  • Configuration - How to configure Nushell
  • 3rd Party Prompts - How to configure 3rd party prompts
  • Custom commands - Creating your own commands
  • Aliases - How to alias commands
  • Operators - Operators supported by Nushell
  • Variables - Working with variables
  • Control flow - Working with the control flow commands
  • Environment - Working with environment variables
  • Stdout, stderr, and exit codes - Working with stdout, stderr, and exit codes
  • Modules - Creating and using your own modules
  • Hooks - Adding code snippets to be run automatically
  • Scripts - Creating your own scripts
  • Metadata - An explanation of Nu's metadata system
  • Creating your own errors - Creating your own error messages
  • Directory Stack - Working with multiple locations
  • Running External (System) Commands - Running external commands with a naming conflict
  • Plugins - Enhancing Nushell with more features using plugins
  • Parallelism - Running your code in parallel
  • Line editor - Nushell's line editor
  • Dataframes - Working with dataframes in Nushell
  • Explore - Using the Nushell TUI
  • Coloring and Theming - How to change the colors and themes in Nushell
  • Regular Expressions - Guide to use regex
  • Coming from Bash - Guide for those coming to Nushell from Bash
  • Nushell map from shells/DSL - Guide to show how Nushell compares with SQL, LINQ, PowerShell, and Bash
  • Nushell map from imperative languages - Guide to show how Nushell compares with Python, Kotlin, C++, C#, and Rust
  • Nushell map from functional languages - Guide to show how Nushell compares with Clojure, Tablecloth (OCaml / Elm) and Haskell
  • Nushell operator map - Guide to show how Nushell operators compare with those in general purpose programming languages
  • Command Reference - List of all Nushell's commands
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