--- title: Introduction to Nushell: The Shell That Treats... description: Nushell is a modern, cross-platform shell that treats everything as structured data rather than text streams. Commands return tables, records, and lists that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-nushell-the-shell-that-treats-everything-as-data-axphftkpg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Introduction to Nushell: The Shell That Treats Everything as Data | daily.dev og:description: Nushell is a modern, cross-platform shell that treats everything as structured data rather than text streams. Commands return tables, records, and lists that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-nushell-the-shell-that-treats-everything-as-data-axphftkpg og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aXphfTKpG.png og:image:alt: Introduction to Nushell: The Shell That Treats Everything as Data 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. # Introduction to Nushell: The Shell That Treats Everything as Data **[Atomic Spin](https://daily.dev/sources/atomicobject)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Nushell is a modern, cross-platform shell that treats everything as structured data rather than text streams. Commands return tables, records, and lists that can be filtered, sorted, and transformed without string parsing. It includes native support for JSON, YAML, CSV, TOML, and other formats, making data transformations and pipelines straightforward. While not POSIX-compliant or a Bash replacement, Nushell excels at data exploration, format conversion, and working with structured data. Installation is simple via package managers, and it can run alongside existing shells for experimentation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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