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Nu Shell

 15 likes

This project has reached a minimum-viable product level of quality. While contributors dogfood it as their daily driver, it may be unstable for some commands. Future releases will work fill out missing features and improve stability.

Nu pipelines use structured data so you can safely select, filter, and sort the same way every time.

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application types

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
5 / 5 Avg rating (2)
15likes
2comments
0news articles

Features

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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Support for scripting
  3.  Portable
  4.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  5.  Autocompletion
  6.  Syntax Highlighting
  7.  Rust

 Tags

  • shell-replacement

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  • OpenSourceSoftware added Nu Shell as alternative to es
    about 1 month ago
  • OpenSourceSoftware added Nu Shell as alternative to arsh
    about 1 month ago
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    OpenSourceSoftware added Nu Shell as alternative to LibTerm
    about 2 months ago
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    POX added Nu Shell as alternative to Elk Shell
    2 months ago
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    rajacharya987 added Nu Shell as alternative to RazzShell
    6 months ago
  • sittletwopalternativeto and playmobilmeister liked Nu Shell
    8 months ago
  • RemovedUser added Nu Shell as alternative to KtSh
    10 months ago
  • Centaro liked Nu Shell
    11 months ago
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Nu Shell information

  • Developed by

    US flagNu Shell
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 5
  • Alternatives

    28 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Category

OS & Utilities

GitHub repository

  •  34,985 Stars
  •  1,815 Forks
  •  1523 Open Issues
  •   Updated May 7, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Nu Shell, and it has gotten 15 likes

Nu Shell was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Sep 26, 2019 and this page was last updated Nov 1, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
sparebytes
Jun 24, 2022
1

It's fast and just feels right

Mathemagician
Mar 12, 2024
0

Great piece of software! Completely replaced Command Prompt or PowerShell on Windows for me.

What is Nu Shell?

This project has reached a minimum-viable product level of quality. While contributors dogfood it as their daily driver, it may be unstable for some commands. Future releases will work fill out missing features and improve stability. Its design is also subject to change as it matures.

Nu comes with a set of built-in commands (listed below). If a command is unknown, the command will shell-out and execute it (using cmd on Windows or bash on Linux and MacOS), correctly passing through stdin, stdout and stderr, so things like your daily git workflows and even vim will work just fine.

Nu supports plugins that offer additional functionality to the shell and follow the same structured data model that built-in commands use. This allows you to extend nu for your needs.

There are a few examples in the plugins directory.

Plugins are binaries that are available in your path and follow a "nu_plugin_*" naming convention. These binaries interact with nu via a simple JSON-RPC protocol where the command identifies itself and passes along its configuration, which then makes it available for use. If the plugin is a filter, data streams to it one element at a time, and it can stream data back in return via stdin/stdout. If the plugin is a sink, it is given the full vector of final data and is given free reign over stdin/stdout to use as it pleases.

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