nushell/docs/commands/flatten.md

title	layout	version
flatten	command	0.59.0

Flatten the table.

Signature

> flatten ...rest

Parameters

• ...rest: optionally flatten data by column

Examples

flatten a table

> [[N, u, s, h, e, l, l]] | flatten 

flatten a table, get the first item

> [[N, u, s, h, e, l, l]] | flatten | first

flatten a column having a nested table

> [[origin, people]; [Ecuador, ([[name, meal]; ['Andres', 'arepa']])]] | flatten | get meal

restrict the flattening by passing column names

> [[origin, crate, versions]; [World, ([[name]; ['nu-cli']]), ['0.21', '0.22']]] | flatten versions | last | get versions

Flatten inner table

> { a: b, d: [ 1 2 3 4 ],  e: [ 4 3  ] } | flatten