Fallback to os build-in command when nushell command can't operate due to unknow flag ?

[sandwoodK]

>ls -ltr
would basically fallback to >^ls -ltr instead of raising an error.

Interactively it would be more accomodant for end-users. Programmatically it should not be a problem as data type would be (most of the type ? ) different, so programmers are likely to easily spot the mistake due to a type error

[fdncred]

I don't really see how this could work. There's nothing to inform nushell the amount of columns or the datatype of the data for each column. For just strings you can try ^ls -ltr | detect columns -s 1 -n or ^ls -ltr | from ssv -n -a -m 2 or you could use the parse command to interpret columns as strings.

[sandwoodK]

I am not suggesting such advance behaviour. Only suggesting that in case a nushell command fails , nushell could trigger the native os command if any and return result as plain string.

[fdncred]

Seems to be like that would be too surprising, especially if someone mis-types some parameter.