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Nushell

Shell that treats command output as data tables.

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Modern Rust shell where commands return structured data (tables, JSON), making it easy to filter and transform results.

When to use

When you work a lot with structured data (JSON, CSV) in the terminal.

When to avoid

For scripts that must run on any machine; it is not POSIX-compatible.

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