nushell/crates/nu-command
Devyn Cairns 4e205cd9a7
Add --raw switch to print for binary data (#13597)
# Description

Something I meant to add a long time ago. We currently don't have a
convenient way to print raw binary data intentionally. You can pipe it
through `cat` to turn it into an unknown stream, or write it to a file
and read it again, but we can't really just e.g. generate msgpack and
write it to stdout without this. For example:

```nushell
[abc def] | to msgpack | print --raw
```

This is useful for nushell scripts that will be piped into something
else. It also means that `nu_plugin_nu_example` probably doesn't need to
do this anymore, but I haven't adjusted it yet:

```nushell
def tell_nushell_encoding [] {
  print -n "\u{0004}json"
}
```

This happens to work because 0x04 is a valid UTF-8 character, but it
wouldn't be possible if it were something above 0x80.

`--raw` also formats other things without `table`, I figured the two
things kind of go together. The output is kind of like `to text`.
Debatable whether that should share the same flag, but it was easier
that way and seemed reasonable.

# User-Facing Changes
- `print` new flag: `--raw`

# Tests + Formatting
Added tests.

# After Submitting
- [ ] release notes (command modified)
2024-08-12 17:29:25 +08:00
..
src Make the math commands const (#13566) 2024-08-07 22:20:33 +02:00
tests Add --raw switch to print for binary data (#13597) 2024-08-12 17:29:25 +08:00
Cargo.toml Add multipart/form-data uploads (#13532) 2024-08-06 15:28:38 -05:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add top-level crate documentation/READMEs (#12907) 2024-07-14 10:10:41 +02:00

This crate contains the majority of our commands

We allow ourselves to move some of the commands in nu-command to nu-cmd-* crates as needed.

Internal Nushell crate

This crate implements components of Nushell and is not designed to support plugin authors or other users directly.