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Uh, this is dumb. I installed it and did a few things I would do on a normal basis. You're telling me that this is not supported? It's absolutely insane.
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Nu's
find
builtin isn't a GNUfind
repacement. I think what you actually want isls
piped intowhere
:I do question the choice to alias a well-known program with a builtin that does something entirely different. You can also use
^find
to avoid calling the builtin. I would've expected\find
(bash-like) orcommand find
(fish-like) to work as well, but alas...I don't think that's what I'd actually want, no. I want GNU find functionality for this to be a viable shell replacement. It's... neat, but it's no daily driver.
back to /bin/zsh for me!
you can absolutely do what you want. GNU
find
is external and since it conflicts with a builtin can be aliased or referenced like^find
.the syntax is new for sure, and it’s not for everyone.
been daily driving for over a year
I prefer flow to futz. Thanks for the info. Glad it's working for you. I'm staying with what works well for me.
They kinda have to replace some coreutils like find from scratch to be compatible with their philosophy of piping data tables instead of text. It’s super cool and ends up being really powerful but yeah it’s a whole new ecosystem which makes it pretty much impossible to be a drop-in shell replacement.
I switched from GNU
find
tofd
2 years ago, unbeknownst to me at the time, this unlocked nu as a daily driver, which I’ve really enjoyed for the past year. I do fire up zsh semi-regularly when needed to escape some hairbrained corners. Scripting in nu is very nice thanks to the data manipulation and closure support. So nice to move from text manipulation to semantic structuring.You can use both.