# Description
When implementing a `Command`, one must also import all the types
present in the function signatures for `Command`. This makes it so that
we often import the same set of types in each command implementation
file. E.g., something like this:
```rust
use nu_protocol::ast::Call;
use nu_protocol::engine::{Command, EngineState, Stack};
use nu_protocol::{
record, Category, Example, IntoInterruptiblePipelineData, IntoPipelineData, PipelineData,
ShellError, Signature, Span, Type, Value,
};
```
This PR adds the `nu_engine::command_prelude` module which contains the
necessary and commonly used types to implement a `Command`:
```rust
// command_prelude.rs
pub use crate::CallExt;
pub use nu_protocol::{
ast::{Call, CellPath},
engine::{Command, EngineState, Stack},
record, Category, Example, IntoInterruptiblePipelineData, IntoPipelineData, IntoSpanned,
PipelineData, Record, ShellError, Signature, Span, Spanned, SyntaxShape, Type, Value,
};
```
This should reduce the boilerplate needed to implement a command and
also gives us a place to track the breadth of the `Command` API. I tried
to be conservative with what went into the prelude modules, since it
might be hard/annoying to remove items from the prelude in the future.
Let me know if something should be included or excluded.
# Description
Binary values passed to `table` may or may not be pretty formatted based
on the output destination. This leads to weird behavior as documented in
#12287. This PR changes `table` to always pretty print binary values.
However, binary values passed to external commands will not be formatted
(this is the existing behavior).
# User-Facing Changes
This is a breaking change. E.g.:
```nushell
0x[8989] | table | cat -
```
used to print raw bytes, but it will now print the pretty formatted
bytes.
# After Submitting
Add to 0.92.0 release notes and update documentation.
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- fixes#11014
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When the `command_not_found` hook is entered, we set an environment
variable for context. If an unknown command is encountered and the
`command_not_found` context environment variable is already present, it
implies a command in the hook closure is also not found. We stop the
recursion right there.
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# Description
This makes many of the larger objects in `EngineState` into `Arc`, and
uses `Arc::make_mut` to do clone-on-write if the reference is not
unique. This is generally very cheap, giving us the best of both worlds
- allowing us to mutate without cloning if we have an exclusive
reference, and cloning if we don't.
This started as more of a curiosity for me after remembering that
`Arc::make_mut` exists and can make using `Arc` for mostly immutable
data that sometimes needs to be changed very convenient, and also after
hearing someone complain about memory usage on Discord - this is a
somewhat significant win for that.
The exact objects that were wrapped in `Arc`:
- `files`, `file_contents` - the strings and byte buffers
- `decls` - the whole `Vec`, but mostly to avoid lots of individual
`malloc()` calls on Clone rather than for memory usage
- `blocks` - the blocks themselves, rather than the outer Vec
- `modules` - the modules themselves, rather than the outer Vec
- `env_vars`, `previous_env_vars` - the entire maps
- `config`
The changes required were relatively minimal, but this is a breaking API
change. In particular, blocks are added as Arcs, to allow the parser
cache functionality to work.
With my normal nu config, running on Linux, this saves me about 15 MiB
of process memory usage when running interactively (65 MiB → 50 MiB).
This also makes quick command executions cheaper, particularly since
every REPL loop now involves a clone of the engine state so that we can
recover from a panic. It also reduces memory usage where engine state
needs to be cloned and sent to another thread or kept within an
iterator.
# User-Facing Changes
Shouldn't be any, since it's all internal stuff, but it does change some
public interfaces so it's a breaking change
# Description
The PR overhauls how IO redirection is handled, allowing more explicit
and fine-grain control over `stdout` and `stderr` output as well as more
efficient IO and piping.
To summarize the changes in this PR:
- Added a new `IoStream` type to indicate the intended destination for a
pipeline element's `stdout` and `stderr`.
- The `stdout` and `stderr` `IoStream`s are stored in the `Stack` and to
avoid adding 6 additional arguments to every eval function and
`Command::run`. The `stdout` and `stderr` streams can be temporarily
overwritten through functions on `Stack` and these functions will return
a guard that restores the original `stdout` and `stderr` when dropped.
- In the AST, redirections are now directly part of a `PipelineElement`
as a `Option<Redirection>` field instead of having multiple different
`PipelineElement` enum variants for each kind of redirection. This
required changes to the parser, mainly in `lite_parser.rs`.
- `Command`s can also set a `IoStream` override/redirection which will
apply to the previous command in the pipeline. This is used, for
example, in `ignore` to allow the previous external command to have its
stdout redirected to `Stdio::null()` at spawn time. In contrast, the
current implementation has to create an os pipe and manually consume the
output on nushell's side. File and pipe redirections (`o>`, `e>`, `e>|`,
etc.) have precedence over overrides from commands.
This PR improves piping and IO speed, partially addressing #10763. Using
the `throughput` command from that issue, this PR gives the following
speedup on my setup for the commands below:
| Command | Before (MB/s) | After (MB/s) | Bash (MB/s) |
| --------------------------- | -------------:| ------------:|
-----------:|
| `throughput o> /dev/null` | 1169 | 52938 | 54305 |
| `throughput \| ignore` | 840 | 55438 | N/A |
| `throughput \| null` | Error | 53617 | N/A |
| `throughput \| rg 'x'` | 1165 | 3049 | 3736 |
| `(throughput) \| rg 'x'` | 810 | 3085 | 3815 |
(Numbers above are the median samples for throughput)
This PR also paves the way to refactor our `ExternalStream` handling in
the various commands. For example, this PR already fixes the following
code:
```nushell
^sh -c 'echo -n "hello "; sleep 0; echo "world"' | find "hello world"
```
This returns an empty list on 0.90.1 and returns a highlighted "hello
world" on this PR.
Since the `stdout` and `stderr` `IoStream`s are available to commands
when they are run, then this unlocks the potential for more convenient
behavior. E.g., the `find` command can disable its ansi highlighting if
it detects that the output `IoStream` is not the terminal. Knowing the
output streams will also allow background job output to be redirected
more easily and efficiently.
# User-Facing Changes
- External commands returned from closures will be collected (in most
cases):
```nushell
1..2 | each {|_| nu -c "print a" }
```
This gives `["a", "a"]` on this PR, whereas this used to print "a\na\n"
and then return an empty list.
```nushell
1..2 | each {|_| nu -c "print -e a" }
```
This gives `["", ""]` and prints "a\na\n" to stderr, whereas this used
to return an empty list and print "a\na\n" to stderr.
- Trailing new lines are always trimmed for external commands when
piping into internal commands or collecting it as a value. (Failure to
decode the output as utf-8 will keep the trailing newline for the last
binary value.) In the current nushell version, the following three code
snippets differ only in parenthesis placement, but they all also have
different outputs:
1. `1..2 | each { ^echo a }`
```
a
a
╭────────────╮
│ empty list │
╰────────────╯
```
2. `1..2 | each { (^echo a) }`
```
╭───┬───╮
│ 0 │ a │
│ 1 │ a │
╰───┴───╯
```
3. `1..2 | (each { ^echo a })`
```
╭───┬───╮
│ 0 │ a │
│ │ │
│ 1 │ a │
│ │ │
╰───┴───╯
```
But in this PR, the above snippets will all have the same output:
```
╭───┬───╮
│ 0 │ a │
│ 1 │ a │
╰───┴───╯
```
- All existing flags on `run-external` are now deprecated.
- File redirections now apply to all commands inside a code block:
```nushell
(nu -c "print -e a"; nu -c "print -e b") e> test.out
```
This gives "a\nb\n" in `test.out` and prints nothing. The same result
would happen when printing to stdout and using a `o>` file redirection.
- External command output will (almost) never be ignored, and ignoring
output must be explicit now:
```nushell
(^echo a; ^echo b)
```
This prints "a\nb\n", whereas this used to print only "b\n". This only
applies to external commands; values and internal commands not in return
position will not print anything (e.g., `(echo a; echo b)` still only
prints "b").
- `complete` now always captures stderr (`do` is not necessary).
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This PR adds a new evaluator path with callbacks to a mutable trait
object implementing a Debugger trait. The trait object can do anything,
e.g., profiling, code coverage, step debugging. Currently,
entering/leaving a block and a pipeline element is marked with
callbacks, but more callbacks can be added as necessary. Not all
callbacks need to be used by all debuggers; unused ones are simply empty
calls. A simple profiler is implemented as a proof of concept.
The debugging support is implementing by making `eval_xxx()` functions
generic depending on whether we're debugging or not. This has zero
computational overhead, but makes the binary slightly larger (see
benchmarks below). `eval_xxx()` variants called from commands (like
`eval_block_with_early_return()` in `each`) are chosen with a dynamic
dispatch for two reasons: to not grow the binary size due to duplicating
the code of many commands, and for the fact that it isn't possible
because it would make Command trait objects object-unsafe.
In the future, I hope it will be possible to allow plugin callbacks such
that users would be able to implement their profiler plugins instead of
having to recompile Nushell.
[DAP](https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/) would also be
interesting to explore.
Try `help debug profile`.
## Screenshots
Basic output:

To profile with more granularity, increase the profiler depth (you'll
see that repeated `is-windows` calls take a large chunk of total time,
making it a good candidate for optimizing):

## Benchmarks
### Binary size
Binary size increase vs. main: **+40360 bytes**. _(Both built with
`--release --features=extra,dataframe`.)_
### Time
```nushell
# bench_debug.nu
use std bench
let test = {
1..100
| each {
ls | each {|row| $row.name | str length }
}
| flatten
| math avg
}
print 'debug:'
let res2 = bench { debug profile $test } --pretty
print $res2
```
```nushell
# bench_nodebug.nu
use std bench
let test = {
1..100
| each {
ls | each {|row| $row.name | str length }
}
| flatten
| math avg
}
print 'no debug:'
let res1 = bench { do $test } --pretty
print $res1
```
`cargo run --release -- bench_debug.nu` is consistently 1--2 ms slower
than `cargo run --release -- bench_nodebug.nu` due to the collection
overhead + gathering the report. This is expected. When gathering more
stuff, the overhead is obviously higher.
`cargo run --release -- bench_nodebug.nu` vs. `nu bench_nodebug.nu` I
didn't measure any difference. Both benchmarks report times between 97
and 103 ms randomly, without one being consistently higher than the
other. This suggests that at least in this particular case, when not
running any debugger, there is no runtime overhead.
## API changes
This PR adds a generic parameter to all `eval_xxx` functions that forces
you to specify whether you use the debugger. You can resolve it in two
ways:
* Use a provided helper that will figure it out for you. If you wanted
to use `eval_block(&engine_state, ...)`, call `let eval_block =
get_eval_block(&engine_state); eval_block(&engine_state, ...)`
* If you know you're in an evaluation path that doesn't need debugger
support, call `eval_block::<WithoutDebug>(&engine_state, ...)` (this is
the case of hooks, for example).
I tried to add more explanation in the docstring of `debugger_trait.rs`.
## TODO
- [x] Better profiler output to reduce spam of iterative commands like
`each`
- [x] Resolve `TODO: DEBUG` comments
- [x] Resolve unwraps
- [x] Add doc comments
- [x] Add usage and extra usage for `debug profile`, explaining all
columns
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# Description
Replace panics with errors in thread spawning.
Also adds `IntoSpanned` trait for easily constructing `Spanned`, and an
implementation of `From<Spanned<std::io::Error>>` for `ShellError`,
which is used to provide context for the error wherever there was a span
conveniently available. In general this should make it more convenient
to do the right thing with `std::io::Error` and always add a span to it
when it's possible to do so.
# User-Facing Changes
Fewer panics!
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`
# Description
Fixes: #11912
# User-Facing Changes
After this change:
```
let x = '*.nu'; ^echo $x
```
will no longer expand glob.
If users still want to expand glob, there are also 3 ways to do this:
```
# 1. use spread operation with `glob` command
let x = '*.nu'; ^echo ...(glob $x)
```
# Tests + Formatting
Done
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NaN
# Description
This is a follow up to
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/11621#issuecomment-1937484322
Also Fixes: #11838
## About the code change
It applys the same logic when we pass variables to external commands:
0487e9ffcb/crates/nu-command/src/system/run_external.rs (L162-L170)
That is: if user input dynamic things(like variables, sub-expression, or
string interpolation), it returns a quoted `NuPath`, then user input
won't be globbed
# User-Facing Changes
Given two input files: `a*c.txt`, `abc.txt`
* `let f = "a*c.txt"; rm $f` will remove one file: `a*c.txt`.
~* `let f = "a*c.txt"; rm --glob $f` will remove `a*c.txt` and
`abc.txt`~
* `let f: glob = "a*c.txt"; rm $f` will remove `a*c.txt` and `abc.txt`
## Rules about globbing with *variable*
Given two files: `a*c.txt`, `abc.txt`
| Cmd Type | example | Result |
| ----- | ------------------ | ------ |
| builtin | let f = "a*c.txt"; rm $f | remove `a*c.txt` |
| builtin | let f: glob = "a*c.txt"; rm $f | remove `a*c.txt` and
`abc.txt`
| builtin | let f = "a*c.txt"; rm ($f \| into glob) | remove `a*c.txt`
and `abc.txt`
| custom | def crm [f: glob] { rm $f }; let f = "a*c.txt"; crm $f |
remove `a*c.txt` and `abc.txt`
| custom | def crm [f: glob] { rm ($f \| into string) }; let f =
"a*c.txt"; crm $f | remove `a*c.txt`
| custom | def crm [f: string] { rm $f }; let f = "a*c.txt"; crm $f |
remove `a*c.txt`
| custom | def crm [f: string] { rm $f }; let f = "a*c.txt"; crm ($f \|
into glob) | remove `a*c.txt` and `abc.txt`
In general, if a variable is annotated with `glob` type, nushell will
expand glob pattern. Or else, we need to use `into | glob` to expand
glob pattern
# Tests + Formatting
Done
# After Submitting
I think `str glob-escape` command will be no-longer required. We can
remove it.
# Description
This PR renames the conversion functions on `Value` to be more consistent.
It follows the Rust [API guidelines](https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/naming.html#ad-hoc-conversions-follow-as_-to_-into_-conventions-c-conv) for ad-hoc conversions.
The conversion functions on `Value` now come in a few forms:
- `coerce_{type}` takes a `&Value` and attempts to convert the value to
`type` (e.g., `i64` are converted to `f64`). This is the old behavior of
some of the `as_{type}` functions -- these functions have simply been
renamed to better reflect what they do.
- The new `as_{type}` functions take a `&Value` and returns an `Ok`
result only if the value is of `type` (no conversion is attempted). The
returned value will be borrowed if `type` is non-`Copy`, otherwise an
owned value is returned.
- `into_{type}` exists for non-`Copy` types, but otherwise does not
attempt conversion just like `as_type`. It takes an owned `Value` and
always returns an owned result.
- `coerce_into_{type}` has the same relationship with `coerce_{type}` as
`into_{type}` does with `as_{type}`.
- `to_{kind}_string`: conversion to different string formats (debug,
abbreviated, etc.). Only two of the old string conversion functions were
removed, the rest have been renamed only.
- `to_{type}`: other conversion functions. Currently, only `to_path`
exists. (And `to_string` through `Display`.)
This table summaries the above:
| Form | Cost | Input Ownership | Output Ownership | Converts `Value`
case/`type` |
| ---------------------------- | ----- | --------------- |
---------------- | -------- |
| `as_{type}` | Cheap | Borrowed | Borrowed/Owned | No |
| `into_{type}` | Cheap | Owned | Owned | No |
| `coerce_{type}` | Cheap | Borrowed | Borrowed/Owned | Yes |
| `coerce_into_{type}` | Cheap | Owned | Owned | Yes |
| `to_{kind}_string` | Expensive | Borrowed | Owned | Yes |
| `to_{type}` | Expensive | Borrowed | Owned | Yes |
# User-Facing Changes
Breaking API change for `Value` in `nu-protocol` which is exposed as
part of the plugin API.
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Spreading lists automatically when calling externals was deprecated in
0.89 (#11289), and this PR is to remove it in 0.91.
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The new error message looks like this:
```
> ^echo [1 2]
Error: nu:🐚:cannot_pass_list_to_external
× Lists are not automatically spread when calling external commands
╭─[entry #13:1:8]
1 │ ^echo [1 2]
· ──┬──
· ╰── Spread operator (...) is necessary to spread lists
╰────
help: Either convert the list to a string or use the spread operator, like so: ...[1 2]
```
The old error message didn't say exactly where to put the `...` and
seemed to confuse a lot of people, so hopefully this helps.
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There was one test to check that implicit spread was deprecated before,
updated that to check that it's disallowed now.
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# Description
This pr is a follow up to
[#11569](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/11569#issuecomment-1902279587)
> Revert the logic in https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/10694 and
apply the logic in this pr to mv, cp, rv will require a larger change, I
need to think how to achieve the bahavior
And sorry @bobhy for reverting some of your changes.
This pr is going to unify glob behavior on the given commands:
* open
* rm
* cp-old
* mv
* umv
* cp
* du
So they have the same behavior to `ls`, which is:
If given parameter is quoted by single quote(`'`) or double quote(`"`),
don't auto-expand the glob pattern. If not quoted, auto-expand the glob
pattern.
Fixes: #9558Fixes: #10211Fixes: #9310Fixes: #10364
# TODO
But there is one thing remains: if we give a variable to the command, it
will always auto-expand the glob pattern, e.g:
```nushell
let path = "a[123]b"
rm $path
```
I don't think it's expected. But I also think user might want to
auto-expand the glob pattern in variables.
So I'll introduce a new command called `glob escape`, then if user
doesn't want to auto-expand the glob pattern, he can just do this: `rm
($path | glob escape)`
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# Tests + Formatting
Done
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## NOTE
This pr changes the semantic of `GlobPattern`, before this pr, it will
`expand path` after evaluated, this makes `nu_engine::glob_from` have no
chance to glob things right if a path contains glob pattern.
e.g: [#9310
](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9310#issuecomment-1886824030)
#10211
I think changing the semantic is fine, because it makes glob works if
path contains something like '*'.
It maybe a breaking change if a custom command's argument are annotated
by `: glob`.
# Description / User-Facing Changes
Signals are no longer blocked for child processes launched from both
interactive and non-interactive mode. The only exception is that
`SIGTSTP`, `SIGTTIN`, and `SIGTTOU` remain blocked for child processes
launched only from **interactive** mode. This is to help prevent nushell
from getting into an unrecoverable state, since we don't support
background jobs. Anyways, this fully fixes#9026.
# Other Notes
- Needs Rust version `>= 1.66` for a fix in
`std::process::Command::spawn`, but it looks our current Rust version is
way above this.
- Uses `sigaction` instead of `signal`, since the behavior of `signal`
can apparently differ across systems. Also, the `sigaction` man page
says:
> The sigaction() function supersedes the signal() function, and should
be used in preference.
Additionally, using both `sigaction` and `signal` is not recommended.
Since we were already using `sigaction` in some places (and possibly
some of our dependencies as well), this PR replaces all usages of
`signal`.
# Tests
Might want to wait for #11178 for testing.
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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.
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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:

And this is the warning you get when you pass a list to an external now
(without `...`):

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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
This updates all the positional arguments (except with
`--features=dataframe` or `--features=extra`) to start with an uppercase
letter and end with a period.
Part of #5066, specifically [this
comment](/nushell/nushell/issues/5066#issuecomment-1421528910)
Some arguments had example data removed from them because it also
appears in the examples.
There are other inconsistencies in positional arguments I noticed while
making the tests pass which I will bring up in #5066.
# User-Facing Changes
Positional arguments are now consistent
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- 🟢 `toolkit test`
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Automatic documentation updates
# Description
Replace `.to_string()` used in `GenericError` with `.into()` as
`.into()` seems more popular
Replace `Vec::new()` used in `GenericError` with `vec![]` as `vec![]`
seems more popular
(There are so, so many)
# Description
Add an extension trait `IgnoreCaseExt` to nu_utils which adds some case
insensitivity helpers, and use them throughout nu to improve the
handling of case insensitivity. Proper case folding is done via unicase,
which is already a dependency via mime_guess from nu-command.
In actuality a lot of code still does `to_lowercase`, because unicase
only provides immediate comparison and doesn't expose a `to_folded_case`
yet. And since we do a lot of `contains`/`starts_with`/`ends_with`, it's
not sufficient to just have `eq_ignore_case`. But if we get access in
the future, this makes us ready to use it with a change in one place.
Plus, it's clearer what the purpose is at the call site to call
`to_folded_case` instead of `to_lowercase` if it's exclusively for the
purpose of case insensitive comparison, even if it just does
`to_lowercase` still.
# User-Facing Changes
- Some commands that were supposed to be case insensitive remained only
insensitive to ASCII case (a-z), and now are case insensitive w.r.t.
non-ASCII characters as well.
# Tests + Formatting
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---------
Co-authored-by: Stefan Holderbach <sholderbach@users.noreply.github.com>
# Description
As part of the refactor to split spans off of Value, this moves to using
helper functions to create values, and using `.span()` instead of
matching span out of Value directly.
Hoping to get a few more helping hands to finish this, as there are a
lot of commands to update :)
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Co-authored-by: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: WindSoilder <windsoilder@outlook.com>
I moved hook to *nu_cmd_base* instead of *nu_cli* because it will enable
other developers to continue to use hook even if they decide to write
their on cli or NOT depend on nu-cli
Then they will still have the hook functionality because they can
include nu-cmd-base
# Description
This PR names the hooks as they're executing so that you can see them
with debug statements. So, at the beginning of `eval_hook()` you could
put a dbg! or eprintln! to see what hook was executing. It also shows up
in View files.
### Before - notice item 14 and 25

### After - The hooks are now named (14 & 25)

Curiosity, on my mac, the display_output hook fires 3 times before
anything else. Also, curious is that the value if the display_output, is
not what I have in my config but what is in the default_config. So,
there may be a bug or some shenanigans going on somewhere with hooks.
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# Description
This doesn't really do much that the user could see, but it helps get us
ready to do the steps of the refactor to split the span off of Value, so
that values can be spanless. This allows us to have top-level values
that can hold both a Value and a Span, without requiring that all values
have them.
We expect to see significant memory reduction by removing so many
unnecessary spans from values. For example, a table of 100,000 rows and
5 columns would have a savings of ~8megs in just spans that are almost
always duplicated.
# User-Facing Changes
Nothing yet
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# Description
In the past we named the process of completely removing a command and
providing a basic error message pointing to the new alternative
"deprecation".
But this doesn't match the expectation of most users that have seen
deprecation _warnings_ that alert to either impending removal or
discouraged use after a stability promise.
# User-Facing Changes
Command category changed from `deprecated` to `removed`
# Description
Currently, foreground process management is disabled for macOS, since
the original code had issues (see #7068).
This PR re-enables process management on macOS in combination with the
changes from #9693.
# User-Facing Changes
Fixes hang on exit for nested nushells on macOS (issue #9859). Nushell
should now manage processes in the same way on macOS and other unix
systems.
# Description
This reverts #9693 as it lead to CPU hangs. (btw, did the revert by hand
as it couldn't be done automatically. Hopefully I didn't miss anything 😅
)
Fixes#9859
cc @IanManske
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# Description
Fixes a regression from #9681 where nushell will attempt to place itself
into the background or take control of the terminal even in
non-interactive mode.
Using the same
[reference](https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Initializing-the-Shell.html)
from #6584:
>A subshell that runs *interactively* has to ensure that it has been
placed in the foreground...
>A subshell that runs *non-interactively* cannot and should not support
job control.
`fish`
[code](54fa1ad6ec/src/reader.cpp (L4862))
also seems to follow this.
This *partially* fixes
[9026](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9026). That is, nushell
will no longer set the foreground process group in non-interactive mode.
This PR reverts https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/9391
We try not to revert PRs like this, though after discussion with the
Nushell team, we decided to revert this one.
The main reason is that Nushell, as a codebase, isn't ready for these
kinds of optimisations. It's in the part of the development cycle where
our main focus should be on improving the algorithms inside of Nushell
itself. Once we have matured our algorithms, then we can look for
opportunities to switch out technologies we're using for alternate
forms.
Much of Nushell still has lots of opportunities for tuning the codebase,
paying down technical debt, and making the codebase generally cleaner
and more robust. This should be the focus. Performance improvements
should flow out of that work.
Said another, optimisation that isn't part of tuning the codebase is
premature at this stage. We need to focus on doing the hard work of
making the engine, parser, etc better.
# User-Facing Changes
Reverts the HashMap -> ahash change.
cc @FilipAndersson245
# Description
see https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9390
using `ahash` instead of the default hasher. this will not affect
compile time as we where already building `ahash`.
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# Description
The previous behaviour broke for me because I didn't have `sh` in my
path for my nu script. I think we shouldn't assume that just because a
file ends with `.sh` it should be executed with `sh`. `sh` might not be
available or the script might contain a hashbang for a different shell.
The idea with this PR is that nushell shouldn't assume anything about
executable files and just execute them. Later on we can think about how
non-executable files should be executed if we detect they are a script.
# User-Facing Changes
This may break some people's scripts or habits if they have wrong
assumptions about `.sh` files. We can tell them to add a hashbang and +x
bit to execute shell scripts, or prepend `bash`. If this a common
assumption something like this should be added to the book
# Tests + Formatting
I only tested manually and that did work
# After Submitting
Co-authored-by: Jelle Besseling <jelle@bigbridge.nl>
# 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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Tiny fix: clarify in `run-external`'s signature that the external
command must be a string.
### Before
```
Signatures:
<any> | run-external <any> -> <any>
Parameters:
command <any>: external command to run
...args <any>: arguments for external command
```
### After
```
Signatures:
<any> | run-external <string> -> <any>
Parameters:
command <string>: external command to run
...args <any>: arguments for external command
```
### Notes
I was hoping to change more `any`s to more specific types, but alas I
think we can only change `command` right now. The input can be any type
and it gets rendered to a string before being passed to the external.
The args can be any value type and they get converted to strings. The
output can be either binary or a string.
# Description
Previously variables with `let-env` were not available after doing an
`exec` command. This PR fixes that
# User-Facing Changes
Can now use environment variables set with nushell after `exec`
# Tests + Formatting
No tests made but formatting has been checked
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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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Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
Add a `command_not_found` function to `$env.config.hooks`. If this
function outputs a string, then it's included in the `help`.
An example hook on *Arch Linux*, to find packages that contain the
binary, looks like:
```nushell
let-env config = {
# ...
hooks: {
command_not_found: {
|cmd_name| (
try {
let pkgs = (pkgfile --binaries --verbose $cmd_name)
(
$"(ansi $env.config.color_config.shape_external)($cmd_name)(ansi reset) " +
$"may be found in the following packages:\n($pkgs)"
)
} catch {
null
}
)
}
# ...
```
# User-Facing Changes
- Add a `command_not_found` function to `$env.config.hooks`.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
Our `ShellError` at the moment has a `std::mem::size_of<ShellError>` of
136 bytes (on AMD64). As a result `Value` directly storing the struct
also required 136 bytes (thanks to alignment requirements).
This change stores the `Value::Error` `ShellError` on the heap.
Pro:
- Value now needs just 80 bytes
- Should be 1 cacheline less (still at least 2 cachelines)
Con:
- More small heap allocations when dealing with `Value::Error`
- More heap fragmentation
- Potential for additional required memcopies
# Further code changes
Includes a small refactor of `try` due to a type mismatch in its large
match.
# User-Facing Changes
None for regular users.
Plugin authors may have to update their matches on `Value` if they use
`nu-protocol`
Needs benchmarking to see if there is a benefit in real world workloads.
**Update** small improvements in runtime for workloads with high volume
of values. Significant reduction in maximum resident set size, when many
values are held in memory.
# Tests + Formatting
Continuation of #8229 and #8326
# Description
The `ShellError` enum at the moment is kind of messy.
Many variants are basic tuple structs where you always have to reference
the implementation with its macro invocation to know which field serves
which purpose.
Furthermore we have both variants that are kind of redundant or either
overly broad to be useful for the user to match on or overly specific
with few uses.
So I set out to start fixing the lacking documentation and naming to
make it feasible to critically review the individual usages and fix
those.
Furthermore we can decide to join or split up variants that don't seem
to be fit for purpose.
# Call to action
**Everyone:** Feel free to add review comments if you spot inconsistent
use of `ShellError` variants.
# User-Facing Changes
(None now, end goal more explicit and consistent error messages)
# Tests + Formatting
(No additional tests needed so far)
# Commits (so far)
- Remove `ShellError::FeatureNotEnabled`
- Name fields on `SE::ExternalNotSupported`
- Name field on `SE::InvalidProbability`
- Name fields on `SE::NushellFailed` variants
- Remove unused `SE::NushellFailedSpannedHelp`
- Name field on `SE::VariableNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Name fields on `SE::EnvVarNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Name fields on `SE::ModuleNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Remove usused `ModuleOrOverlayNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Name fields on `SE::OverlayNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Name field on `SE::NotFound`
# Description
Working on uniformizing the ending messages regarding methods usage()
and extra_usage(). This is related to the issue
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/5066 after discussing it with
@jntrnr
# User-Facing Changes
None.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
Lint: `clippy::uninlined_format_args`
More readable in most situations.
(May be slightly confusing for modifier format strings
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fmt/index.html#formatting-parameters)
Alternative to #7865
# User-Facing Changes
None intended
# Tests + Formatting
(Ran `cargo +stable clippy --fix --workspace -- -A clippy::all -D
clippy::uninlined_format_args` to achieve this. Depends on Rust `1.67`)
I noticed that [it's pretty easy to name threads in
Rust](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/#naming-threads). We might as
well do this; it's a nice quality of life improvement when you're
profiling something and the developers took the time to give threads
names.
Also added/cleaned up some comments while I was in the area.
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
In bash when a program crashes, it prints the reason for what happened:
```
$ ./division_by_zero
Floating point exception (core dumped)
$ ./segfault
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
```
Nushell always prints the same thing in this case:
```
> ./division_by_zero
nushell: oops, process './division_by_zero' core dumped
Error: nu:🐚:external_command (link)
# etc..
```
This PR adds more detailed error printing, like in bash:
```
> ./division_by_zero
Floating point exception: oops, process './division_by_zero' core dumped
Error: nu:🐚:external_command (link)
# etc..
```
I made this message format as an example:
```
Floating point exception: oops, process './division_by_zero' core dumped
```
Instead of `nushell:` it writes a meaningful message, but I can change
this format as per the suggestions.
I tested the change only on linux, but it should work on other unix
systems.
# User-Facing Changes
The error message only.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
Co-authored-by: Stefan Holderbach <sholderbach@users.noreply.github.com>
# 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 "~"
~
```
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
_(Description of your pull request goes here. **Provide examples and/or
screenshots** if your changes affect the user experience.)_
I implemented the status bar we talk about yesterday. The idea was
inspired by the progress bar of `wget`.
I decided to go for the second suggestion by `@Reilly`
> 2. add an Option<usize> or whatever to RawStream (and ListStream?) for
situations where you do know the length ahead of time
For now only works with the command `save` but after the approve of this
PR we can see how we can implement it on commands like `cp` and `mv`
When using `fetch` nushell will check if there is any `content-length`
attribute in the request header. If so, then `fetch` will send it
through the new `Option` variable in the `RawStream` to the `save`.
If we know the total size we show the progress bar

but if we don't then we just show the stats like: data already saved,
bytes per second, and time lapse.


Please let me know If I need to make any changes and I will be happy to
do it.
# User-Facing Changes
A new flag (`--progress` `-p`) was added to the `save` command
Examples:
```nu
fetch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/archive/refs/heads/master.zip | save --progress -f main.zip
fetch https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04.1/ubuntu-22.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso | save --progress -f main.zip
open main.zip --raw | save --progress main.copy
```
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
-
I am getting some errors and its weird because the errors are showing up
in files i haven't touch. Is this normal?
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
Co-authored-by: Reilly Wood <reilly.wood@icloud.com>
# Description
Closes#6909. You can now add closures to your `color_config` themes.
Whenever a value would be printed with `table`, the closure is run with
the value piped-in. The closure must return either a {fg,bg,attr} record
or a color name (`'light_red'` etc.). This returned style is used to
colour the value.
This is entirely backwards-compatible with existing config.nu files.
Example code excerpt:
```
let my_theme = {
header: green_bold
bool: { if $in { 'light_cyan' } else { 'light_red' } }
int: purple_bold
filesize: { |e| if $e == 0b { 'gray' } else if $e < 1mb { 'purple_bold' } else { 'cyan_bold' } }
duration: purple_bold
date: { (date now) - $in | if $in > 1wk { 'cyan_bold' } else if $in > 1day { 'green_bold' } else { 'yellow_bold' } }
range: yellow_bold
string: { if $in =~ '^#\w{6}$' { $in } else { 'white' } }
nothing: white
```
Example output with this in effect:



Slightly important notes:
* Some color_config names, namely "separator", "empty" and "hints", pipe
in `null` instead of a value.
* Currently, doing anything non-trivial inside a closure has an
understandably big perf hit. I currently do not actually recommend
something like `string: { if $in =~ '^#\w{6}$' { $in } else { 'white' }
}` for serious work, mainly because of the abundance of string-type data
in the world. Nevertheless, lesser-used types like "date" and "duration"
work well with this.
* I had to do some reorganisation in order to make it possible to call
`eval_block()` that late in table rendering. I invented a new struct
called "StyleComputer" which holds the engine_state and stack of the
initial `table` command (implicit or explicit).
* StyleComputer has a `compute()` method which takes a color_config name
and a nu value, and always returns the correct Style, so you don't have
to worry about A) the color_config value was set at all, B) whether it
was set to a closure or not, or C) which default style to use in those
cases.
* Currently, errors encountered during execution of the closures are
thrown in the garbage. Any other ideas are welcome. (Nonetheless, errors
result in a huge perf hit when they are encountered. I think what should
be done is to assume something terrible happened to the user's config
and invalidate the StyleComputer for that `table` run, thus causing
subsequent output to just be Style::default().)
* More thorough tests are forthcoming - ran into some difficulty using
`nu!` to take an alternative config, and for some reason `let-env config
=` statements don't seem to work inside `nu!` pipelines(???)
* The default config.nu has not been updated to make use of this yet. Do
tell if you think I should incorporate that into this.
# User-Facing Changes
See above.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace --features=extra -- -D warnings -D
clippy::unwrap_used -A clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're
using the standard code style
- `cargo test --workspace --features=extra` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
I've been working on streaming and pipeline interruption lately. It was
bothering me that checking ctrl+c (something we want to do often) always
requires a bunch of boilerplate like:
```rust
use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;
if let Some(ctrlc) = &engine_state.ctrlc {
if ctrlc.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
...
```
I added a helper method to cut that down to:
```rust
if nu_utils::ctrl_c::was_pressed(&engine_state.ctrlc) {
...
```
# Description
The message arrow is altered to show the external command name in case
it wasn't obvious. (See example for an occasion where it is
non-obvious).
BEFORE:
```
〉else if (2mb) > 4mb
Error: nu:🐚:external_command (link)
× External command failed
╭─[entry #35:1:1]
1 │ else if (2mb) > 4mb
· ─┬
· ╰── Cannot convert filesize to a string
╰────
help: All arguments to an external command need to be string-compatible
```
AFTER:
```
〉else if (2mb) > 4mb
Error: nu:🐚:external_command (link)
× External command failed
╭─[entry #3:1:1]
1 │ else if (2mb) > 4mb
· ─┬
· ╰── Cannot convert filesize to a string argument for 'else'
╰────
help: All arguments to an external command need to be string-compatible
```
# User-Facing Changes
See above.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
While perusing Value.rs, I noticed the `Value::int()`, `Value::float()`,
`Value::boolean()` and `Value::string()` constructors, which seem
designed to make it easier to construct various Values, but which aren't
used often at all in the codebase. So, using a few find-replaces
regexes, I increased their usage. This reduces overall LOC because
structures like this:
```
Value::Int {
val: a,
span: head
}
```
are changed into
```
Value::int(a, head)
```
and are respected as such by the project's formatter.
There are little readability concerns because the second argument to all
of these is `span`, and it's almost always extremely obvious which is
the span at every callsite.
# User-Facing Changes
None.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
Ooops, fix the input redirection logic so we don't break vim.
# User-Facing Changes
_(List of all changes that impact the user experience here. This helps
us keep track of breaking changes.)_
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
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documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
This is a set of fixes to `err>` to make it work a bit more predictably.
I've also revised the tests, which accidentally tested the wrong thing
for redirection, but should be more correct now.
# User-Facing Changes
_(List of all changes that impact the user experience here. This helps
us keep track of breaking changes.)_
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
rust 1.65.0 has been released for a while, this pr applies lint
suggestions from rust 1.65.0.
# User-Facing Changes
N/A
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace --features=extra -- -D warnings -D
clippy::unwrap_used -A clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're
using the standard code style
- `cargo test --workspace --features=extra` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
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documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
As title, when execute external sub command, auto-trimming end
new-lines, like how fish shell does.
And if the command is executed directly like: `cat tmp`, the result
won't change.
Fixes: #6816Fixes: #3980
Note that although nushell works correctly by directly replace output of
external command to variable(or other places like string interpolation),
it's not friendly to user, and users almost want to use `str trim` to
trim trailing newline, I think that's why fish shell do this
automatically.
If the pr is ok, as a result, no more `str trim -r` is required when
user is writing scripts which using external commands.
# User-Facing Changes
Before:
<img width="523" alt="img"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22256154/202468810-86b04dbb-c147-459a-96a5-e0095eeaab3d.png">
After:
<img width="505" alt="img"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22256154/202468599-7b537488-3d6b-458e-9d75-d85780826db0.png">
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace --features=extra -- -D warnings -D
clippy::unwrap_used -A clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're
using the standard code style
- `cargo test --workspace --features=extra` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
* Revert "Revert "Try again: in unix like system, set foreground process while running external command (#6273)" (#6542)"
This reverts commit 2bb367f570.
* Make foreground job control hopefully work correctly
These changes are mostly inspired by the glibc manual.
* Fix typo in external command description
* Only restore tty control to shell when no fg procs are left; reuse pgrp
* Rework terminal acquirement code to be like fish
Co-authored-by: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
* Revert "Fix intermittent test crash (#6268)"
This reverts commit 555d9ee763.
* make a working version again
* try second impl
* add
* fmt
* check stdin is atty before acquire stdin
* add libc
* clean comment
* fix typo
* while executing external command, make it as foreground
* remove useless file
* add comment, make var more readable
* add comment
* fmt code
* fix windows
* fix func name
* fix clippy
* fix windows clippy
* add comments, introduce `ForegroundProcess and ForegroundChild
* fix windows clippy
* fix on windows
* no need fg_process_setup module
* Revert "no need fg_process_setup module"
This reverts commit 21ee4ffbf6.
* restrict visibility for helper functions
* 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>
* Return error when external command core dumped
Fixes#5903
Signed-off-by: nibon7 <nibon7@163.com>
* Use signal-hook to get signal name
Signed-off-by: nibon7 <nibon7@163.com>
* Fix comment
Signed-off-by: nibon7 <nibon7@163.com>
* fix argument type
* while run external, convert list argument to str
* fix argument converting logic
* using parse_list_expression instead of parse_full_cell_path
* make parsing logic more explicit
* revert changes
* add tests
* only set cwd for child process if cwd exists, and avoid showing error when pwd is not exists
* better comment text
Co-authored-by: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
I don't personally agree with this; I'd prefer less magic,
and not expanding _anything_ except `~` as an initial path element
Co-authored-by: nicole mazzuca <mazzucan@outlook.com>
* Add test for passing binary data through externals
This change adds an ignored test to confirm that binary data is passed
correctly between externals to be enabled in a later commit along with
the fix.
To assist in platform agnostic testing of binary data a couple of
additional testbins were added to allow testing on `Value::Binary` inside
`ExternalStream`.
* Support binary data to stdin of run-external
Prior to this change, any pipeline producing binary data (not detected
as string) then feed into an external would be ignored due to
run-external only supporting `Value::String` on stdin.
This change adds binary stdin support for externals allowing something
like this for example:
〉^cat /dev/urandom | ^head -c 1MiB | ^pv -b | ignore
1.00MiB
This would previously output `0.00 B [0.00 B/s]` due to the data not
being pushed to stdin at each stage.
Prior to this change, a pipeline of externals would result in high memory
usage if any of the producers in the chain, produced data faster than
the consumers.
For example a pipeline:
> fast-producer | slow-consumer
Would cause a build up of `Value::{String,Binary}`'s in the mpsc channels
between each command as values are added to the channels faster than they
are consumed, eventually OOM'ing depnding on system resources, the volume
of data and speed diff. between fast v's slow.
This change replaces the unbounded channels with bounded channels
to limit the number of values that can build up and providing
back-pressure to limit ram usage.
* Do not pass non-string env vars to externals
Also misc cleanup
* Add note to default config
* Add a test
* Ensure PATH/Path conversion list <-> string