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Finishes implementing https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10598,
which asks for a spread operator in lists, in records, and when calling
commands.
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This PR will allow spreading arguments to commands (both internal and
external). It will also deprecate spreading arguments automatically when
passing to external commands.
# User-Facing Changes
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- Users will be able to use `...` to spread arguments to custom/builtin
commands that have rest parameters or allow unknown arguments, or to any
external command
- If a custom command doesn't have a rest parameter and it doesn't allow
unknown arguments either, the spread operator will not be allowed
- Passing lists to external commands without `...` will work for now but
will cause a deprecation warning saying that it'll stop working in 0.91
(is 2 versions enough time?)
Here's a function to help with demonstrating some behavior:
```nushell
> def foo [ a, b, c?, d?, ...rest ] { [$a $b $c $d $rest] | to nuon }
```
You can pass a list of arguments to fill in the `rest` parameter using
`...`:
```nushell
> foo 1 2 3 4 ...[5 6]
[1, 2, 3, 4, [5, 6]]
```
If you don't use `...`, the list `[5 6]` will be treated as a single
argument:
```nushell
> foo 1 2 3 4 [5 6] # Note the double [[]]
[1, 2, 3, 4, [[5, 6]]]
```
You can omit optional parameters before the spread arguments:
```nushell
> foo 1 2 3 ...[4 5] # d is omitted here
[1, 2, 3, null, [4, 5]]
```
If you have multiple lists, you can spread them all:
```nushell
> foo 1 2 3 ...[4 5] 6 7 ...[8] ...[]
[1, 2, 3, null, [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]]
```
Here's the kind of error you get when you try to spread arguments to a
command with no rest parameter:
![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/45539777/93faceae-00eb-4e59-ac3f-17f98436e6e4)
And this is the warning you get when you pass a list to an external now
(without `...`):
![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/45539777/d368f590-201e-49fb-8b20-68476ced415e)
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Added tests to cover the following cases:
- Spreading arguments to a command that doesn't have a rest parameter
(unexpected spread argument error)
- Spreading arguments to a command that doesn't have a rest parameter
*but* there's also a missing positional argument (missing positional
error)
- Spreading arguments to a command that doesn't have a rest parameter
but does allow unknown arguments, such as `exec` (allowed)
- Spreading a list literal containing arguments of the wrong type (parse
error)
- Spreading a non-list value, both to internal and external commands
- Having named arguments in the middle of rest arguments
- `explain`ing a command call that spreads its arguments
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# Examples
Suppose you have multiple tables:
```nushell
let people = [[id name age]; [0 alice 100] [1 bob 200] [2 eve 300]]
let evil_twins = [[id name age]; [0 ecila 100] [-1 bob 200] [-2 eve 300]]
```
Maybe you often find yourself needing to merge multiple tables and want
a utility to do that. You could write a function like this:
```nushell
def merge_all [ ...tables ] { $tables | reduce { |it, acc| $acc | merge $it } }
```
Then you can use it like this:
```nushell
> merge_all ...([$people $evil_twins] | each { |$it| $it | select name age })
╭───┬───────┬─────╮
│ # │ name │ age │
├───┼───────┼─────┤
│ 0 │ ecila │ 100 │
│ 1 │ bob │ 200 │
│ 2 │ eve │ 300 │
╰───┴───────┴─────╯
```
Except they had duplicate columns, so now you first want to suffix every
column with a number to tell you which table the column came from. You
can make a command for that:
```nushell
def select_and_merge [ --cols: list<string>, ...tables ] {
let renamed_tables = $tables
| enumerate
| each { |it|
$it.item | select $cols | rename ...($cols | each { |col| $col + ($it.index | into string) })
};
merge_all ...$renamed_tables
}
```
And call it like this:
```nushell
> select_and_merge --cols [name age] $people $evil_twins
╭───┬───────┬──────┬───────┬──────╮
│ # │ name0 │ age0 │ name1 │ age1 │
├───┼───────┼──────┼───────┼──────┤
│ 0 │ alice │ 100 │ ecila │ 100 │
│ 1 │ bob │ 200 │ bob │ 200 │
│ 2 │ eve │ 300 │ eve │ 300 │
╰───┴───────┴──────┴───────┴──────╯
```
---
Suppose someone's made a command to search for APT packages:
```nushell
# The main command
def search-pkgs [
--install # Whether to install any packages it finds
log_level: int # Pretend it's a good idea to make this a required positional parameter
exclude?: list<string> # Packages to exclude
repositories?: list<string> # Which repositories to look in (searches in all if not given)
...pkgs # Package names to search for
] {
{ install: $install, log_level: $log_level, exclude: ($exclude | to nuon), repositories: ($repositories | to nuon), pkgs: ($pkgs | to nuon) }
}
```
It has a lot of parameters to configure it, so you might make your own
helper commands to wrap around it for specific cases. Here's one
example:
```nushell
# Only look for packages locally
def search-pkgs-local [
--install # Whether to install any packages it finds
log_level: int
exclude?: list<string> # Packages to exclude
...pkgs # Package names to search for
] {
# All required and optional positional parameters are given
search-pkgs --install=$install $log_level [] ["<local URI or something>"] ...$pkgs
}
```
And you can run it like this:
```nushell
> search-pkgs-local --install=false 5 ...["python2.7" "vim"]
╭──────────────┬──────────────────────────────╮
│ install │ false │
│ log_level │ 5 │
│ exclude │ [] │
│ repositories │ ["<local URI or something>"] │
│ pkgs │ ["python2.7", vim] │
╰──────────────┴──────────────────────────────╯
```
One thing I realized when writing this was that if we decide to not
allow passing optional arguments using the spread operator, then you can
(mis?)use the spread operator to skip optional parameters. Here, I
didn't want to give `exclude` explicitly, so I used a spread operator to
pass the packages to install. Without it, I would've needed to do
`search-pkgs-local --install=false 5 [] "python2.7" "vim"` (explicitly
pass `[]` (or `null`, in the general case) to `exclude`). There are
probably more idiomatic ways to do this, but I just thought it was
something interesting.
If you're a virologist of the [xkcd](https://xkcd.com/350/) kind,
another helper command you might make is this:
```nushell
# Install any packages it finds
def live-dangerously [ ...pkgs ] {
# One optional argument was given (exclude), while another was not (repositories)
search-pkgs 0 [] ...$pkgs --install # Flags can go after spread arguments
}
```
Running it:
```nushell
> live-dangerously "git" "*vi*" # *vi* because I don't feel like typing out vim and neovim
╭──────────────┬─────────────╮
│ install │ true │
│ log_level │ 0 │
│ exclude │ [] │
│ repositories │ null │
│ pkgs │ [git, *vi*] │
╰──────────────┴─────────────╯
```
Here's an example that uses the spread operator more than once within
the same command call:
```nushell
let extras = [ chrome firefox python java git ]
def search-pkgs-curated [ ...pkgs ] {
(search-pkgs
1
[emacs]
["example.com", "foo.com"]
vim # A must for everyone!
...($pkgs | filter { |p| not ($p | str contains "*") }) # Remove packages with globs
python # Good tool to have
...$extras
--install=false
python3) # I forget, did I already put Python in extras?
}
```
Running it:
```nushell
> search-pkgs-curated "git" "*vi*"
╭──────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ install │ false │
│ log_level │ 1 │
│ exclude │ [emacs] │
│ repositories │ [example.com, foo.com] │
│ pkgs │ [vim, git, python, chrome, firefox, python, java, git, "python3"] │
╰──────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
```
# Description
Limit the test `-p nu-command --test main
commands::run_external::redirect_combine` which uses `sh` to running on
`not(Windows)` like is done for other tests assuming unixy CLI items;
`sh` doesn't exist on Windows.
# User-Facing Changes
None; this is a change to tests only.
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
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- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`
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This PR is related to **Tests: clean up unnecessary use of cwd,
pipeline(), etc.
[#8670](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8670)**
- Removed the `r#"..."#` raw string literal syntax, which is unnecessary
when there are no special characters that need quoting from the tests
that use the `nu!` macro.
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# Description
The working directory doesn't have to be set for those tests (or would
be the default anyways). When appropriate also remove calls to the
`pipeline()` function. In most places kept the diff minimal and only
removed the superfluous part to not pollute the blame view. With simpler
tests also simplified things to make them more readable overall (this
included removal of the raw string literal).
Work for #8670
# Description
Add option that combines both output streams to the `run-external`
command.
This allows you to do something like this:
```nushell
let res = do -i { run-external --redirect-combine <command that prints to stdout and stderr> } | complete
if $res.exit_code != 0 {
# Only print output when command has failed.
print "The command has failed, these are the logs:"
print $res.stdout
}
```
# User-Facing Changes
No breaking changes, just an extra option.
# Tests + Formatting
Added a test that checks the new option
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Co-authored-by: Jelle Besseling <jelle@bigbridge.nl>
# Description
Require that any value that looks like it might be a number (starts with
a digit, or a '-' + digit, or a '+' + digits, or a special form float
like `-inf`, `inf`, or `NaN`) must now be treated as a number-like
value. Number-like syntax can only parse into number-like values.
Number-like values include: durations, ints, floats, ranges, filesizes,
binary data, etc.
# User-Facing Changes
BREAKING CHANGE
BREAKING CHANGE
BREAKING CHANGE
BREAKING CHANGE
BREAKING CHANGE
BREAKING CHANGE
BREAKING CHANGE
BREAKING CHANGE
Just making sure we see this for release notes 😅
This breaks any and all numberlike values that were treated as strings
before. Example, we used to allow `3,` as a bare word. Anything like
this would now require quotes or backticks to be treated as a string or
bare word, respectively.
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clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
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# Description
Fixes: #8542
# User-Facing Changes
## Previous
```
❯ cat `~/TE ST/bug`
cat: ~/TE ST/bug: No such file or directory
```
## After
```
❯ cat `~/TE ST/bug`
a
```
This should be ok because We treat back-quoted strings as bare words
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This reverts commit dec0a2517f.
It breaks programs like `fzf`
# Description
Fixes: #8472
Fixes: #8313Reopen: #7690
# User-Facing Changes
_(List of all changes that impact the user experience here. This helps
us keep track of breaking changes.)_
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Fixes#7615
# Description
When calling external commands, we create a table from the pipeline data
to handle external commands expecting paginated input. When a binary
value is made into a table, we convert the vector of bytes representing
the binary bytes into a pretty formatted string. This results in the
pretty formatted string being sent to external commands instead of the
actual binary bytes. By checking whether the stdout of the call is being
redirected, we can decide whether to send the raw binary bytes or the
pretty formatted output when creating a table command.
# User-Facing Changes
When passing binary values to external commands, the external command
will receive the actual bytes instead of the pretty printed string. Use
cases that don't involve piping a binary value into an external command
are unchanged.
![new_behavior](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/32406734/218349172-24cd12f2-d563-4957-bdf1-6aa804b174b2.png)
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style
cargo test --workspace to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
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Closes#6337 and #5366. Prior to this PR, when "shelling out" to cmd.exe
on Windows we were not trimming quotes correctly:
```bash
〉^echo "foo"
\"foo\"
```
After this change, we do:
```bash
〉^echo "foo"
foo
```
### Breaking Change
I ended up removing `dir` from the list of supported cmd.exe internal
commands as part of this PR.
For this PR, I extracted the argument-cleaning-and-expanding code from
`spawn_simple_command()` for reuse in `spawn_cmd_command()`. This means
that we now expand globs, which broke some tests for the `dir` cmd.exe
internal command.
I probably could have kept the tests working, but... tbh, I don't think
it's worth it. I don't want to make the `cmd.exe` functionality any more
complicated than it already is, and calling `dir` from Nu is always
going to be weird+hacky compared to `ls`.
# Description
As title
Fixes: #7673Fixes: #4205
Also possiblely fixes: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/6993
# User-Facing Changes
Before:
```
> ^echo "~"
/Users/ttt
```
After:
```
> ^echo "~"
~
```
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Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
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style
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* introduce external command runs to failed error, and implement semicolon relative logic
* ignore test due to semicolon works
* not raise ShellError for external commands
* update comment
* add relative test in for windows
* fix type-o
Co-authored-by: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
* Fix 5978
* Add unit test for explicit glob
* Format
* Expansion vs none-expansion
* Add unit tests
* Fix format..
* Add debug message for MacOS
* Fix UT on Mac and add tests for windows
* cleanup
* clean up windows test
* single and double qoutes tests
* format...
* Save format.
* Add log to failed windows unit tests
* try `touch` a file
* PS or CMD
* roll back some change
* format
* Remove log and test case
* Add unit test comments
* Fix
Co-authored-by: Frank <v-frankz@microsoft.com>