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zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to Bash@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago

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zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to Bash@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago
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    I actually prefer fish, but I want to learn more bash because is is ubiquitous and a lot of bash stuff also works in fish.

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      You may also like NuShell. It’s been designed from the ground up to be an intuitive and convenient shell language.

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        Wait, the other shells were designed to be obtuse and inconvenient? /s

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          Haha whoops, didn’t want to imply that. I meant to say that it’s intuitive for me, who finds bash syntax cryptic.

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        Can you tell me how to run a command and ignore an alias in NuShell? I don’t really use nu but when i tried to write something in it, this was something that eluded me

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          Oh, if you want to avoid running a built in command like ls or cp and want to run the actual thing in /usr/bin, you prefix it with a ^, so eg ^cp -p.

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            Interesting. What does the ^ do in this situation?

            And I just want to not respect an alias, so falls back to either builtin or path.

            In zsh or bash I can prefix the command with the word command, or a backslash (directly before the command)

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              https://www.nushell.sh/book/escaping.html

              I don’t know whether unsetting an alias is possible though.

              https://www.nushell.sh/book/aliases.html#replacing-existing-commands-using-aliases

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      Fish is great! I used it for a while a long time ago but I ended up stopping because a few tools expected your shell to be set to something posix compatible. I wonder if the support is better now, I should give it a shot

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