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Comment by purplecats | Hacker News Reader

This looks pretty awesome. Wonder if it could be used with a command rather than as a new shell.

Tangent: How is this at the top of the front page with a dozen upvotes and no comments? Maybe these upvotes all occurred at once?

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It's not uncommon for people to upvote without commenting if they don't have anything to actually add or the post is self-explanatory

Software releases commonly get this treatment, I remember the comment about why there was no discussion on the actual contents of the change on a decently upvoted post about a minor release of wine, for example.

A lot of people just upvote anything that is a GitHub repo because it's generally more useful than actual news

You can with `-c`:

    $ nu -c "sys | get host.name"
    > Ubuntu

On one hand I do like the idea that it's a shell since it means in it's nicely integrated with itself (can't think of a better phrase), but on the other hand it's also what's making me a bit reluctant to seriously consider it because I'm too used to fish.

It would be ideal to me if it were a tool that could be piped into.

However, that's not to say I won't at least give it a try these days, since I'm really curious about it.

I will sometimes upvote something without comment if I found it interesting, don't really have anything useful to say myself, but would be interesting in seeing what other people have to say.

This tracker was a show HN last month, looks pretty normal https://upvotetracker.com/post/hn/27525031

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