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by mongol 1004 days ago
I am also excited, but I think I am too old to jump in on a new way of shell workings. My fingers are too used to type bash and coreutils switches.
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Right, but I think that's the point. If nushell adopts uutils, I don't have to remember that nushell's mkdir already implies `mkdir -p` and breaks if I specify it.

Instead, I get to use familiar coreutils primitives, while also benefit from the insane power of sane string handling, string interpolation, native JSON handling, records, scoping, etc. And forgetting so much bashisms that I groan when I pop a nix shell and end up in bash/zsh.

Honestly, nushell takes so little time to adopt and has so many tag-along benefits. The biggest friction has been around quirks of `mkdir`, `mv`, `cp`. Someone... I know... recently filed a bug on their `mv` not working right, so I am very happy to see this.