--- title: In praise of Nushell | daily.dev description: Nushell is a non-POSIX shell implemented in Rust that handles structured data and provides a powerful, incremental way of working with pipelines in the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/in-praise-of-nushell-kirp0kyax twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: In praise of Nushell | daily.dev og:description: Nushell is a non-POSIX shell implemented in Rust that handles structured data and provides a powerful, incremental way of working with pipelines in the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/in-praise-of-nushell-kirp0kyax og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KiRp0kYaX.png og:image:alt: In praise of Nushell og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # In praise of Nushell **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 4 min read · 61 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Nushell is a non-POSIX shell implemented in Rust that handles structured data and provides a powerful, incremental way of working with pipelines in the terminal. It redefines common shell commands to output structured data and offers a range of basic types and commands for transforming data. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mykytanikitenko42** · 0 upvotes > Looks very interesting, I am going to try it :) **@tvdheijden** · 0 upvotes > I've been using Nushell for a while now and I really enjoy using it! Definitely recommend to try it out. Plus I love that I can use it on Windows as well **@ghost** · 0 upvotes > I used it, but switched to fish, because Inreally missed autocomplete. You can also get structured data with `jq`. --- Tags: [#azure](https://daily.dev/tags/azure), [#shell](https://daily.dev/tags/shell) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/in-praise-of-nushell-kirp0kyax) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"In praise of Nushell","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/in-praise-of-nushell-kirp0kyax","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/in-praise-of-nushell-kirp0kyax"},"datePublished":"2024-02-29T11:22:32.619Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:43:33.910Z","description":"Nushell is a non-POSIX shell implemented in Rust that handles structured data and provides a powerful, incremental way of working with pipelines in the...","image":"https://lars.yencken.org/posts/in-praise-of-nushell/2024-02-28-types.gif","thumbnailUrl":"https://lars.yencken.org/posts/in-praise-of-nushell/2024-02-28-types.gif","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":3,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/in-praise-of-nushell-kirp0kyax","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":61},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"keywords":"azure,shell","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"In praise of Nushell"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/in-praise-of-nushell-kirp0kyax","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"Looks very interesting, I am going to try it :)","datePublished":"2024-03-04T09:25:22.470Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/KiRp0kYaX#c-8b8WzKBHS","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Mykyta Nikitenko","url":"https://daily.dev/mykytanikitenko42","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/AAcHTtfurSXqjGczJrC4WFT2LrMQYjGe-Qrau5HTeaP1=s96-c"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"I’ve been using Nushell for a while now and I really enjoy using it! 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