Nu Shell
A modern shell written in Rust
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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- Developed byNu Shell
- LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free product.
- Written in
- Alternatives21 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
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- 1,183 Forks
- 745 Open Issues
- Updated
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Tags
- Shell
- shell-replacement
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BDKH3 added Nu Shell as alternative(s) to PowerShell
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It's fast and just feels right