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I played with it recently. The interactive part is limited at the moment, but I really like the idea of having operations like sorting and filtering separate from the tools which produce the data. Having these things consistent and available everywhere is a huge cognitive win. I can finally sort and filter `ls` output without having to read the man page. :) "Querying" data feels a lot like SQL in that respect.

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Were you not able to before? ls | grep foo | sort is hardly something people normally read the man page for.

This isn't the way I'd sort ls output by date or whatever field. I'd use `ls -l --sort=date` which I guess is what the GP meant with having every tool do their own sorting by field.

In nushell one can just do `ls | sort-by size`

Yes, that is what I mean.

I also like that nushell's table oriented approach displays the column names, and you just use those names for the `sort` command or `where` command etc.

Ah, fair enough. I misunderstood the parent.

Now sort by filesize

File size or file length ?

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