Files

Editing a file and then saving the changes

Here we are making edits to Cargo.toml. We increase the patch version of the crate using inc and then save it back to the file. Use help inc to get more information.

Read the file's initial contents

open Cargo.toml | get package.version

Output

0.5.1

Make the edit to the version number and save it.

Nu keeps track of the file you have opened. You may omit the filename argument from save if you want to save the changes to the opened file.

open Cargo.toml | inc package.version --patch | save

Output none

View the changes we made to the file.

open Cargo.toml | get package.version

Output

0.5.2

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Parsing a file in a non-standard format

Suppose you have a file with the following format.

band:album:year
Fugazi:Steady Diet of Nothing:1991
Fugazi:The Argument:2001
Fugazi:7 Songs:1988
Fugazi:Repeater:1990
Fugazi:In On The Kill Taker:1993

You can parse it into a table.

open bands.txt | lines | split column ":" Band Album Year | skip 1 | sort-by Year

Output

━━━┯━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┯━━━━━━
 # │ Band   │ Album                  │ Year
───┼────────┼────────────────────────┼──────
 0 │ Fugazi │ 7 Songs                │ 1988
 1 │ Fugazi │ Repeater               │ 1990
 2 │ Fugazi │ Steady Diet of Nothing │ 1991
 3 │ Fugazi │ In On The Kill Taker   │ 1993
 4 │ Fugazi │ The Argument           │ 2001
━━━┷━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┷━━━━━━

You can alternatively do this using parse.

open bands.txt | lines | parse "{Band}:{Album}:{Year}" | skip 1 | sort-by Year

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Word occurrence count with Ripgrep

Suppose you would like to check the number of lines the string "Tagged" appears per file in the nushell project, then sort those files by largest line count.

rg -c Tagged | lines | split column ":" file line_count | str to-int line_count | sort-by line_count | reverse

Output

───┬──────────────────────────────────────┬────────────
 # │ file                                 │ line_count
───┼──────────────────────────────────────┼────────────
 0 │ crates/nu-source/src/meta.rs         │         27
 1 │ crates/nu-protocol/src/value/dict.rs │         10
 2 │ src/commands/config.rs               │         10
 3 │ crates/nu_plugin_sys/src/sys.rs      │         10
 4 │ src/commands/from_bson.rs            │          9
 5 │ src/utils/data_processing.rs         │          9
 6 │ src/deserializer.rs                  │          8
 7 │ src/commands/histogram.rs            │          7
 8 │ src/commands/split_column.rs         │          6
 9 │ src/data/dict.rs                     │          6
───┴──────────────────────────────────────┴────────────
... example output limited due to large output