Misc tools

[thibran]

Some of my favorite functions.

skim is a wrapper around the sk command-line tool. I would love, if the basic list-select functionality would become a part of Nushell, as it is so handy.

> ls | get name | skim --preview 'ls --color {}'
# move the cursor (emacs key-bindings) or fuzzy find,
# then press enter to select the value
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group-list helps to quick-and-dirty parse lists of data with a repeating header+body schema. I need the capability of group-list quite often and wonder, why there is no other tool (as far as I know) with this functionality.

> [id_a 1 2 id_b 3] | group-list id_
╭───┬──────┬────────────────╮
│ # │ key  │     values     │
├───┼──────┼────────────────┤
│ 0 │ id_a │ [list 2 items] │
│ 1 │ id_b │ [list 1 item]  │
╰───┴──────┴────────────────╯

Shortcut that is very handy when creating file names.

> ymd
2022-05-21

> dmy
21-05-2022

[fdncred]

We have no problem accepting a script for skim. Unfortunately skim is not cross-platform, as it doesn't run on windows thanks to the termion crate not supporting windows. I assume that's the skim you're talking about. The one like broot and fzf.